[CentOS-devel] lists.centos.org migration to mailman3 : RFC !

Thu Mar 28 14:57:01 UTC 2024
Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 8:58 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On 27/03/2024 19:27, Davide Cavalca wrote:
> > On 2024-03-27 07:27, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:16 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I'd like to get board approval (thread here) about renaming the lists
> >>> like this :
> >>>
> <snip>
>
> Final recap for the public lists to be imported and renamed at the same
> time :
>
> arm-dev at centos.org => arm-dev at lists.centos.org
> centos at centos.org => discuss at lists.centos.org (proposed by Amy)
> centos-devel at centos.org => devel at lists.centos.org
> centos-announce at centos.org => announce at lists.centos.org
> centos-automotive-sig at centos.org => automotive-sig at lists.centos.org
> centos-{cz,de,es,fr,nl,pt-br,zh}@centos.org =>
> discuss-{cz,de,es,fr,nl,pt-br,zh}@lists.centos.org
> ci-users at centos.org => ci-users at lists.centos.org
> centos-gsoc: => gsoc at lists.centos.org
> centos-mirror at centos.org => mirror at lists.centos.org
> centos-mirror-announce at centos.org => mirror-announce at lists.centos.org
> centos-newsletter at centos.org => newsletter at lists.centos.org
> centos-promo at centos.org => promo at lists.centos.org
> centos-virt at centos.org => virt at lists.centos.org
>
> I'll write a wrapper script to automate the mailman2 => mailman3 import
> (host itself will be configured by new ansible mailman3 role, already
> tested) and I'll announce the day when we'll switch to new platform
>

Looks good!

> Remark :
> If we rename we have to inform all users on all lists that they'll have
> to modify eventually their filters, if they filter based on list but not
> subject.
> Worth knowing that renaming a list modifies the email address but the
> list settings are still the same, so even if centos-devel at centos.org is
> imported as new list devel at lists.centos.org, the subject prefix (as
> imported by mailman2 import21 script) keeps it intact, so [CentOS-devel]
>

Yes, though we could drop the subject prefix too.

It seems like it'd be worth having a blog post or something to
announce the changes coming with the transition.




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