Re: [Feedback request] Decommissioning of unused mailing lists (>5yrs no postings)

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:36:07 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.common-lisp-net.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/13/23 12:51, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> Hi Raymond,
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM Raymond Toy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>     On 7/13/23 04:23, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>     >
>     > cmucl-ticket
>
>     I guess this and other -ticket lists were created for Trac. I guess
>     gitlab doesn't automatically send emails from the issue tracker to
>     any
>     mailing list?  I've forgotten how this works, but I'd like to keep
>     this
>     and have gitlab send issues to this mailing list.
>
>
> The commit messages are being sent to an e-mail address (which can be 
> a mailing list) due to project configuration. Maybe that's an option 
> for issue updates too. Not sure.
Yeah, I'll have to dig through the gitlab docs to see how to do that.  
It's always kind of hard to find it.
>
>     I'm also surprised that cmucl-devel and cmucl-help aren't here.
>
>
> Neither of these exist on common-lisp.net <http://common-lisp.net>, or 
> at least, not if I have to go by 
> https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo. There *is* an archive for 
> [email protected], but no trace of 
> [email protected] (there is [email protected], though).
Oops. I meant cmucl-imp, not cmucl-devel.  The existing cmucl-help and 
cmucl-imp were created when cmucl moved to c-l.net, but we never 
actually moved the cons.org lists here.
>
>
>     > f2cl-ticket
>     >
>     > oct-cvs
>     > oct-ticket
>     >
>     I'd like to keep the above.  I haven't worked too much on f2cl or
>     oct in
>     a while, but they're not dead; they just work well enough for me now.
>
>
> Mind if I migrate these to mailman3 now then? Once migrated, I won't 
> be looking at them anymore and they're very low volume anyway, so 
> migrating now won't interfere with on-going fierce discussions :-)

Go for it!

Again, thanks for updating the mailing lists.

>       I
>     guess the burden is on me to have these projects send issue and git
>     emails to the right mailing list.
>
>
> Yep. But it should be straight forward, at least for the commit mails. 
> It's even documented in the site FAQ: 
> https://common-lisp.net/faq/emailonpush
Haha! It even uses cmucl as the example.  I had forgotten about this 
page. :-)