Great; thanks to both of you!
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 12:07 AM Rintze Zelle <rintze.ze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Quick updates regarding the mailing list:
>
> * I took Michel up on his offer to help with the migration to
> Discourse. We have the forum up and running at
> https://discourse.citationstyles.org/, but I'm keeping it private
> until we complete the migration.
> * It would make things easier if we don't need to migrate any newer
> emails from after 2017-11-24 to Discourse. Feel free to keep using the
> mailing list until we migrate, but if you want any new emails to
> migrate please wait until we wrap things up (hopefully within the next
> two weeks or so).
> * The migration hit a little snag because SourceForge has in 2017
> started obfuscating email addresses in mailing list mbox archive
> files. Luckily I had a 2015 mbox archive on hand, and I un-obfuscated
> the email addresses for more recent emails by touching up the mbox
> file by hand.
> * I also discovered that the Nabble mirror
> (http://xbiblio-devel.2463403.n2.nabble.com/) had stopped mirroring
> the main list since June 2017, so it's missing some emails (again this
> is because SourceForge changed something). I fixed this last week, but
> if you subscribed through Nabble you likely missed the emails between
> June and November 2017.
> * I also discovered that our Gmane mirror
> (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.xbiblio.devel) has gone offline
> since June 2016 along with the demise of the entire site (see
> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ and
> http://home.gmane.org/2016/08/29/next-steps-gmane/).
>
> Best,
>
> Rintze
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Michel Krämer <mic...@undercouch.de>
> wrote:
> > Hi Rintze,
> >
> > I agree with you that we should avoid GitHub-only communication. GitHub
> is for issues for not for general discussion/support/help.
> >
> > I had a look at the install instructions and the import script. Looks
> pretty doable. If you like, I can try to do the migration.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Michel
> >
> >
> >> On 24. Nov 2017, at 02:19, Rintze Zelle <rintze.ze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I recently came across an offer by Discourse for free hosting for
> >> popular open source projects
> >> (
> https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/
> ),
> >> and I'm happy to report that we got approved. I think this would be a
> >> very nice replacement for the SourceForge mailing list (and maybe we
> >> can also use it for user support and reduce our reliance on the Zotero
> >> forums). I guess we could also move to GitHub-only communication, but
> >> I think a separate platform like Discourse is still useful for
> >> high-importance/low-volume discussions with a wider audience.
> >>
> >> We should be able to migrate the xbiblio-devel mailing list archive,
> >> but the Discourse folks told me that we can't do the migration on
> >> their hosted copy. However, we could migrate our mailing list content
> >> into a development instance of Discourse, export a Discourse data
> >> backup, and have the Discourse folks apply that to their hosted
> >> instance.
> >>
> >> I was hoping somebody would be willing to assist me with this
> >> migration. I can supply an mbox file for the xbiblio-devel SourceForge
> >> mailing list archive
> >> (
> https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mailing%20List%20Archives/).
> >>
> https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
> >> has instructions for installing Discourse locally or on a cloud
> >> instance.
> https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-importing-using-mbox-script/37567
> >> has a discussion of a successful SourceForge mailing list migration.
> >> https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-import-mbox-mailing-list-files/51233
> >> has general instructions on using the standard mbox import script at
> >>
> https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/mbox.rb
> .
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Rintze
> >>
> >>
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