Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 09.03.2012 um 02:51 schrieb Jeff Epler: > The responses in this thread seem to have been pretty heavily in favor > of moving to self-hosted service. The board will soon start on the > behind-the-scenes work to make this a reality. > > We've looked around for mailing list archive software tha

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-03-08 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/8/2012 8:51 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: > The responses in this thread seem to have been pretty heavily in favor > of moving to self-hosted service. The board will soon start on the > behind-the-scenes work to make this a reality. > > We've looked around for mailing list archive software that is be

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-03-08 Thread Jeff Epler
The responses in this thread seem to have been pretty heavily in favor of moving to self-hosted service. The board will soon start on the behind-the-scenes work to make this a reality. We've looked around for mailing list archive software that is better than the basic mailman one (something that

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-22 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/21/2012 11:04 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: > This got a little bit wordy, so I hope that you're still with me and > that this answered your questions. > > Jeff Thanks, Jeff. It's clear you folks have spent a lot of time behind the scenes on this. I'd be happy to buy you all a beer! Regards, -

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:45:14 AM Jeff Epler did opine: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:59:58PM -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > Finally, perhaps you've already addressed this, but will it be > > possible to leave "forwarding addresses" on the old sites, at least > > for a time, so that peopl

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:59:58PM -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Finally, perhaps you've already addressed this, but will it be possible > to leave "forwarding addresses" on the old sites, at least for a time, > so that people directed to us by mostly old links from external sites > will be able

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/21/2012 11:46 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > We presently host the primary webserver, forums, and wiki on dreamhost, > and anticipate using this for mailing list and bug tracker hosting. > > <...> > Jeff > > Jeff: I saw but didn't respond in a timely fashion to your first message about the future o

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread Ed Nisley
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 10:46 -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: > approval of a user's initial post will be required. My admittedly limited 3-year experience with my Wordpress-based blog shows that exactly zero spammers have figured out how to post one meaningful, on-point comment in order to clear the appr

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Wendt
On 02/21/2012 11:46 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > We presently host the primary webserver, forums, and wiki on dreamhost, > and anticipate using this for mailing list and bug tracker hosting. > > Yesterday I took the time to investigate dreamhost's discussion list > offerings more closely. I learned tha

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-21 Thread Jeff Epler
We presently host the primary webserver, forums, and wiki on dreamhost, and anticipate using this for mailing list and bug tracker hosting. Yesterday I took the time to investigate dreamhost's discussion list offerings more closely. I learned that: * There is a "mass subscribe" function, so that

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Wendt
On 02/19/2012 12:21 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Second option sounds more attractive with several notes: > 1) It would require additional effort on their free time to maintain > and keep it all running; > Sure, just like it does now. Now we can spread the work around even further. > 2) I agree

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Jon Elson
Jeff Epler wrote: > a future renaming of the > SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would be under the > LinuxCNC name. > Ideally, this discussion will result in a clear consensus of the > community. If there is not a clear consensus, the board will take > into account community comment

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread dave
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:58:32 -0800 Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 07:23 -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: > > In the board's original announcement of the rebranding of the > > project as LinuxCNC, we mentioned a future renaming of the > > SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would b

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/2/19 Dave : > While I am sure that you guys are more than capable of running the > server outside of Sourceforge, what always concerns me in situations > like this > is the dependency on certain people to do certain things without a solid > backup plan. > > If plan A is to have person X run an

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 07:23 -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: > In the board's original announcement of the rebranding of the > project as LinuxCNC, we mentioned a future renaming of the > SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would be under the > LinuxCNC name. ... snip I don't mind either option

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Michael Haberler
oh;) Am 19.02.2012 um 14:23 schrieb Jeff Epler: > * Administer our own mailing lists and bug tracker, eventually > closing the sourceforge project. Advantages of this choice > include a more powerful bug tracker (probably bugzilla), ad-free My vote goes to option 2 re: bugtracker - my vot

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Dave
While I am sure that you guys are more than capable of running the server outside of Sourceforge, what always concerns me in situations like this is the dependency on certain people to do certain things without a solid backup plan. If plan A is to have person X run and administer the server, wh

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
On 2/19/2012 8:23 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > In the board's original announcement of the rebranding of the > project as LinuxCNC, we mentioned a future renaming of the > SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would be under the > LinuxCNC name. However, the board has not yet filed this renami

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 19.02.12 07:37, John Thornton wrote: > I'm in favor of option 2 for several reasons: > > I hate the ads > > I hate the ads +1 (Well, more in principle than being really put out by them, but I'm archiving quite a few of them in my lurker's stash. Horrors!) What surprises me is that some of us

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, February 19, 2012 08:35:34 AM Jeff Epler did opine: > In the board's original announcement of the rebranding of the > project as LinuxCNC, we mentioned a future renaming of the > SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would be under the > LinuxCNC name. However, the board has n

Re: [Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread John Thornton
I'm in favor of option 2 for several reasons: I hate the ads I hate the ads Having to register again is a small price to pay to gain control over our mailing list and improve the bug tracker. bugzilla seems easy to navigate and I like the advanced search function. John On 2/19/2012 7:23 AM,

[Emc-users] The future of LinuxCNC mailing lists and bug tracking

2012-02-19 Thread Jeff Epler
In the board's original announcement of the rebranding of the project as LinuxCNC, we mentioned a future renaming of the SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would be under the LinuxCNC name. However, the board has not yet filed this renaming request with sourceforge.net. Instead, we ar