I'll butt in with my (non-binding) suggestions.
On 11/2/2011 12:01 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Hi Dave,
where I am confused is the focus on Mailing-List forwarding rather than E-mail
forwarding. I can't tell what the intended behaviors are.
Let's get clear:
1. If someone posts to one of the old e-mail list addresses (e.g.,
[email protected]), what is intended to happen? What is the observed
behavior? How does this extend to use
of -subscribe, -unsubscribe, -help, -owner (or their OO.o counterparts), etc.
?
After the final migration, they all bounce. By then we should have nice
friendly pages - easily searchable for - that tell past OpenOffice.org
product version users which relevant Apache list to use. And we'll have
sent several "hey, this list is going away" notes to the old list.
2. (a) If someone sends an e-mail to an existing account/e-mail address
(e.g., [email protected]), what is intended to happen? What does the
individual that it current forwards to get to know or do about it? The person
sending the e-mail? If the forwarding bounces, what will happen?
(b) If the account is closed/deleted, what are the 2(a) answers.
After the final migration, if they're not a committer, they bounce.
Period. We are not in the business of providing services to non-committers.
If they're a committer, then it's up to the PPMC to decide if 1) you
want to, and 2) you will support some software to make committer
forwarders @openoffice.org work somehow.
Apache projects use apache.org services to do their work. I certainly
expect - as such a hugely accessed service - that web access to
openoffice.org will remain, along with a number of it's key subdomains.
But we really need to start thinking like the new Apache project that
we're running, and not like some strange continuation of the past Oracle
project that is now... unsupported.
- Shane
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 20:35
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; 'Joe Schaefer'
Subject: Re: [ISSUE] Shut-down of all name@ openoffice.org e-mail addresses
On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Whoa, now I am really confused. This seems to have gone in the opposite
direction than what I thought.
First it narrowed down to privileging some small set of BZ users.
And then protecting our committers that have @openoffice.org email
addresses.
Also, I don't think there had been any intention to preserve the
@openffice.org mailing lists. Also, setting their addresses to forward to a
different list that is not subscribed to is just weird. So I don't
understand the list forwarding scenario.
And I have seen no one talk about moving the subscriber lists and adding
those subscribers to a list they did not opt into.
Joe and I discussed doing it w/o subscriber lists. As a pure forwarder that's
choice one and two.
I hope I misunderstand the common understanding about that.
You do. See my other reply.
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