Re: Moderator for slrn-user / slrn-announce lists wanted

Peter J Ross <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 15 June 2009 18:36:19 John E. Davis wrote:
> Felix Schueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Also i suggest, that we leave slrn-users as is, and just reject every
> > mail to slrn-announce which is not from an allowed sender. (or cancel
> > slrn-announce completly, depending whether jed wants to use it or not)
>
> My preference would be to announce new releases on slrn-users as well
> as news.software.readers.

Is it a big problem to add the slrn-announce address to the "To:" line?

There may be people who want to read only important announcements, not general 
discussion. I subscribe to a *lot* of "announce" mailing lists and find them 
useful even if they receive hardly any posts.

For the same reason, announcements posted in news.software.readers could also 
usefully be crossposted or multiposted into news.admin.announce - but as one 
of the new moderators who are hoping to revitalise that group perhaps I'm  
biased.

> A somewhat related question:  Any thoughts about migrating the
> development to something like github?  I have no experience with it,
> but my experience with sourceforge has been less than positive.

Have you considered "Gna!"? (https://gna.org/). You could migrate servers 
without changing the version control software. I've used the site in the past 
(when I was p[eripherally involved with the Wesnoth project), and found it to 
be about as good as Sourceforge was before they "improved" Sourceforge by 
making it almost impossible to find anything.

If the code repository leaves Sourceforge, I expect that the Web site and 
mailing lists will have to leave too. If so, I suggest asking Sven G for 
permission to take over slrn.org. If he agrees, we can arrange hosting where 
the site and lists are under *our* control.

-- 
PJR :-)
<http://slrn-doc.sourceforge.net/>

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