Propose new RFC for migrating off Sympa. #63
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As there seems to be no way to access Google Groups through NNTP, I'm personally not in favor of that (the current list is mirrored through gmane.org). |
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If I'm not mistaken, there's nothing stopping the google groups version of the list from being mirrored through gmane. If so, would that address your concern about NNTP support? |
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Oh, indeed.. I thought the google groups are not mirrored by gmane, but in fact they are. Fine.. go for it 👍 |
| This RFC proposes to migrate the existing Sympa-run mailing lists at | ||
| `lists.opscode.com` to Google Groups. | ||
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| There are only two mailing lists of note: `chef` and `chef-dev`. The |
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I don't believe it is, at least not consistently. We've had many releases since August 2014, when we last thought to post to it.
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We tend to post to just the chef and chef dev lists with announcements, as well as always posting to the blog. We should resurrect opscode-announce in some form at least, as that likely has value.
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Sure, we could create a new chef-announce Google Group, outside of the scope of this RFC. I wouldn't bother to migrate what's in opscode-announce now. Agree/disagree?
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I'm 👍 on this. The one requirement is that it come with a new addition to the maintainers file, which is for the mailing list. I will approve this as soon as I know I'll have an LT for maintenance. (looking at you, @juliandunn ) |
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| All existing subscribers on the current mailing list(s) would be | ||
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Should we migrate subscribers? I'd advocate for inviting all current subscribers and letting them decide if they'd like to accept the invitation or simply ignore it.
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I think it's better to migrate as-is -- that way users aren't annoyed that they need to re-subscribe/confirm anything in order to keep getting their email.
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Threadable.com, which is a mailing list service that's been built by some friends of mine, may be a viable alternative to Google Groups. It may complicate the NNTP case and would make importing archives difficult, but these may be offset by the features Threadable brings (API, subscribe / unsubscribe individual threads, easy management of multiple groups inside an organization, good webui, etc.) |
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🚢 👍 lets get off of sympa. |
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Thanks Adam. Paging @opscode/rfc-editors to merge this, then I can start doing the needful. |
Propose new RFC for migrating off Sympa.
Heads up @nathenharvey
I will post to the mailing list (hehe) and hopefully we can get some comments & have this reviewed by the next community meeting.