On Apr 01, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: >I've already started this process.
Thanks Brad! >The old list has not been deleted, but is fully locked down from getting any >more posts made to it, and the auto-responder has been turned on to tell >everyone that all new posts should be made to the other list. > >Assuming that folks still want the archives available, and therefore we leave >this in place as a Mailman list that does not accept any new incoming >messages, I'm not sure how we would set it up to forward all incoming posts >to a different list. It's a bit of a hack, but what you do is delete the old list (probably after backing up the lists/catalog-sig directory just in case). Then you need to add Postfix aliases to forward from catalog-sig to distutils-sig. Finally, you need to add [email protected] as an acceptable alias, and you might want to add an autoresponder text to the posting address to inform people of this, although you can't currently discriminate between postings to catalog-sig and postings to distutils-sig. Boy, this should would make a good Mailman 3 feature! >So far as I know, only outstanding action that remains is to decide what to >do with the list of subscribers to the old list. My understanding is that >most of them are already subscribed to the new list, so the easiest thing to >do might be to do a mass unsubscribe, and included in that message would be >an invitation to join the new list if the recipient has not already done so. > >Other possibilities would include doing the equivalent of a "sort -u" on the >combined subscriber list, remove all the recipients who are already on the >new list, and then do a mass subscribe of the remainder to the new list. At >that point, we could do a mass unsubscribe for everyone from the old list, >and not have to worry about inviting people to join the new one. > >Anyway, I'm still waiting on feedback for that. I want to do whatever we can >to support the community in the way they want to be supported, but I'm not >sure what type of method that this particular community would want applied to >them. Given that both mailing lists are gated on Gmane, I think it's enough to get the word out about the switch, and let people opt-in to distutils sig. They can always catch up on Gmane if they miss something. -Barry
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