migration of mailing lists

[Kevin Glynn]

On 11/15/06, Boriss Mejias <boris.mejias at uclouvain.be> wrote:
> Kevin Glynn wrote:
> > On 11/15/06, Boriss Mejias <boris.mejias at uclouvain.be> wrote:
> >> Dear hackers,
> >>
> >> We are back to our migration tasks with Guido, and we will move the
> >> mailing lists next Thursday, Nov 23. One of the thing we want to do is
> >> get rid of the newsgroups because we don't see the real benefit of it.
> >> If somebody has strong reasons to keep the newsgroup alive, please post
> >> them here, so we can evaluate it.
> >
> > What will you do for the commit messages
>
> gforge provides a mailing list for SVN commits. But I don't know if it
> is working properly. We will have to test this.
>

Please do,  and perhaps you can provide an rss feed too?

> > and download newsgroups?
>
> As far as I know, nobody is reading this newsgroup. We can also check
> what are the possibilities offered by gforge.
>

well, I used to :-), but it is only available to people at
ucl.sics/kth, and saarbrucken.  I guess we can drop it but quite a few
people do take the time to drop us a line.

> > Also we should try again to register the mailing lists with gmane ...
>
> that's a good idea. Who did it last time?
>

I believe Guido tried.

k