Re: Can we host the Boehm GC mailing list?

As far as I'm concerned, this would be up to prom as he's the one who would
be impacted by this.

 - Bruce



On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Bruce Hoult <[email protected]> wrote:

> About a year ago Hans Boehm mentioned that a new home might be
> required soon for the GC mailing list. I mentioned that we use Boehm
> GC, also use Mailman, have been active and stable for 15 years, and
> unilaterally suggested we would be happy to help.
>
> Hans has just posted another message saying the issue has come up again.
>
>
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/2014-January/005834.html
>
> There are some bigger projects also using Boehm GC, such as Mono, but
> they haven't as yet been heard from.
>
> I don't know how many subscribers there are on the GC mailing list,
> but the message volume is similar to our own -- that is "trivial".
> Most months seem to be about 30 messages or fewer, though November
> 2012 had 71. Running my eye quickly over
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/ it looks as if
> the entire archive from 2002 to now is maybe 2-3 MB (zipped). Such
> load. Wow.
>
> Technically, I'm sure it's the work of a few minutes to set it up and
> transfer the archives.
>
> Do we want to more formally make the offer?
>
> ("we" .. I haven't been active here for some time :( )
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