Redundant packaging mailing lists

Martin Steigerwald martin at lichtvoll.de
Wed Jul 29 23:16:05 BST 2020


Ben Cooksley - 29.07.20, 19:58:35 CEST:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 3:14 AM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
> > On 7/29/20 8:52 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Nate Graham - 29.07.20, 16:46:07 CEST:
> > >> On 7/28/20 6:23 PM, A. Wilcox wrote:
> > > […]
> > > 
> > >> I'd like to formally propose that we centralize everything on
> > >> distributions at kde.org if only because it has a shorter and
> > >> easier-to-remember name. :) Also the history that Albert dug up
> > >> (thanks Albert!) suggests that centralization was its purpose.
> > > 
> > > I agree.
> > > 
> > >> Any objections?
> > > 
> > > It might be good to keep the archive of the mailing list that is
> > > discontinued or even merge it with the mailing list that remains.
> > 
> > Sounds sane to me. No objection to either one.
> > 
> > Sysadmin folks, which one would be preferred for this case?
> 
> Keeping the archive of the existing list isn't a problem.
> 
> It's a bit more work to merge the two mailing list archives together,
> but nothing too major (they're just mbox files, so it's a case of
> three commands in total if memory serves), although it would require
> some Mailman downtime while we do that.

Hmmm, I bet keeping the archive as is is good enough. Merging IMHO is 
not really required.

-- 
Martin





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