mailing list migration

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> will be =
retired soon.  Its replacement is a new list, [email protected] =
<mailto:[email protected]>.  Your subscription will not be =
automatically moved over. If you wish to subscribe to the new list, you =
can do so by sending mail to [email protected] =
<mailto:[email protected]>.

For more details, read on.

This mailing list, [email protected] =
<mailto:[email protected]>, has been managed by the Mailman =
program for many years.

Mailman 2, which is what we=E2=80=99ve been running, requires Python 2.  =
The Python developers quit working on Python 2 in back in January 2020.  =
Instead of porting Mailman 2 to Python 3, the Mailman developers decided =
to create Mailman 3, which is quite different from Mailman 2.

At the moment, Python 2 is still available for easy installation on =
FreeBSD and probably some other systems, but they are warning that it is =
deprecated, and at some point, they will stop providing it.

So, I=E2=80=99ve decided to try using new mailing list management =
software, namely mlmmj (http://mlmmj.org <http://mlmmj.org/>).

Here is the plan.

I have created a new mailing list [email protected] =
<mailto:[email protected]>, managed by mlmmj.  You have to subscribe =
to it anew by sending mail to [email protected] =
<mailto:[email protected]>. [1]

List archives for the new list will not be immediately available, but =
will be in the near future.  I will also make the old Mailman list =
archives conveniently accessible somewhere.

For the moment, the way to subscribe and unsubscribe to the new list is =
by sending it email.  There is a simple web-based front end for =
subscribing and unsubscribing that I will make available when the list =
archives become available.

I hate to have to do this, because it takes up time I=E2=80=99d rather =
spend on something else.  Renaming the list is probably going to be =
disruptive as well.  But I feel that I have to do something to get off =
Python 2.



1. There is no technical reason I couldn=E2=80=99t automatically add all =
current subscribers, but I don=E2=80=99t feel like that=E2=80=99s =
appropriate.  I would rather have people take explicit action.