[Swift-devel] Mailing lists, documentation update, etc.

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 19:53 -0500, Yadu Nand Babuji wrote:
> There was mention of UChicago IT services taking over for critical 
> services, though
> it wasn't clear what services they will take over. I can check with 
> David again
> tomorrow, but the last time I talked to him, he said that there was no 
> clear plan in place.

... which seems to make MCS even more attractive.

IT services does have something:
https://itservices.uchicago.edu/services/mailing-lists

However, when I try to log in, it doesn't recognize my cnet credentials.

Btw, I'm acting on an email from Craig. I think these are sent to the
list administrators, so you may not have seen it:

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As previously announced, the CI mailing list server will soon be
retired.
You're receiving this message as a list owner of a list housed at
lists.ci.uchicago.edu. Specifically, the following list:

Swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu, Last post at Thu Jun 18 19:01:03 2015.
https://lists.ci.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/Swift-user
(Note the above link also contains a link to any archives of the list as
well.)

If you do nothing, the list will stop working at end of July. Any
archives that
exist will disappear when the server is retired at that point.  Mail
sent to
Swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu and Swift-user at lists.ci.uchicago.edu will
bounce,
and the sender will receive a notice that the address is no longer
valid.

If you want to retain and move the list, your best option is to create a
new
list on the service of your choice (for example, ITS provides mailing
lists at
https://itservices.uchicago.edu/services/mailing-lists).  We don't have
a way
to automate this process of moving from one service to another,
unfortunately.
However, if you'd like a raw text dump of your existing configuration
and
membership, we can provide that, simply let us know.  Otherwise, the web
UI to
see your existing configuration and membership can be found at
https://lists.ci.uchicago.edu/mailman/admin/Swift-user.  If you've
forgotten the
password for your list, please let us know and we'll reset it.

Once you've got your new list configured and ready, if you'd like we can
point
the existing listname Swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu to that new address.
Or you can
simply switch to using the new address, whatever that may be.

If you want the archives of your old CI list, let us know.  We can
provide the
raw archives (including static HTML files) for you to use as you wish.
We do
not have a method of transferring the archives to whatever list provider
you
choose to use for your new list, however.

Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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Mihael