[Swift-devel] maling lists

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:04 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> It seems there are 2 scenarios: we get out of hibernation, join the 
> process, and life is good.  Or we decide down the road that this is not 
> working, and we withdraw.

I'd say no more down the road. We decide on this round, based on hands
on experience trying to get there, whether we do it or not.

I'll put all I can into getting it to work under the assumption that any
changes required will be minimal and accepted by everybody. If that
fails, so be it.

> 
> In the first scenario, its best to convert now to dev.globus lists.
> 
> In the second scenario, we'd have to convert back to some other domain 
> later.
> 
> I think the first scenario is more likely, so I propose we set a target 
> date to convert, and for the moment, manually mirror the membership from 
> CI to majordomo to comply with the guidelines.
> 
> I propose that you send out a summary of the infrastructure impact, and 
> we then attempt to reach a decision on dev.globus by a committers vote.
> 
> I'll echo this on another thread, along with discussion on a review of 
> the committers list.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> 
> On 6/5/08 1:02 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:32 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> >> It sounds good to me.
> >>
> >> Would it be better and feasible though to maintain just one set of list 
> >> memberships, and have the master lists echo to the other set for 
> >> archival purposes?
> > 
> > If you want @ci to be primary, then no. It is required for all
> > committers to be subscribed to the @globus mailing lists.
> > 
> > So we either keep both in these conditions or move entirely to @globus.
> > 
> >> It seems like we have much vested in maintaining svn and bugzilla using 
> >> the current infrastructure, but the email lists seem a bit easier to 
> >> change. And if the CI lists can remain the master, is it OK just to 
> >> forward traffic to the dev.globus lists?
> >>
> >> If the dev.globus lists need to be fully populated with members to meet 
> >> dev.globus requirements, then can we transition to using those as the 
> >> sole lists, with minimal impact on current list members?
> >>
> >> - Mike
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/5/08 12:22 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> >>> It seems like one requirement is to have all committers subscribed to
> >>> the @globus.org mailing lists.
> >>>
> >>> While @ci will continue to be our primary mailing lists, in order to
> >>> meet the requirements, I'll do the following:
> >>>
> >>> - move everybody from swift-commit at ci to swift-commit at globus and make
> >>> swift-commit at ci forward to swift-commit at globus. This is so that we don't
> >>> get double posts, but still have the infrastructure primarily based @ci.
> >>>
> >>> - subscribe all committers to the other @globus mailing lists. We'll
> >>> encourage users to use the @ci mailing lists, and discussions initiated
> >>> on @globus should be manually moved to @ci.
> >>>
> >>> Objections?
> >>>
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> >