[OpenIndiana-discuss] list archives?

[James Madgwick]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:16:14 +0200
Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi James
> 
> There are no plans for the mailing list other to at least replace the 
> mailman setup with something I don't have to administer and can
> update. The Mailman links exist but I cannot change things there so
> that they would be available under a new Domain. The site went
> offline as I could not teach GitHub pages to do the same redirect
> thing that nginx did before.

So it is not possible to have a new domain to host the mailman site
pages (say lists.openindiana.org)?

> I am in favour of a modern Fediverse setup so if we found a Lemmy
> server (Open and federated version of Reddit) we could see to migrate
> there.

r/OpenIndiana and r/illumos have been around a while and don't get much
traffic. While this decentralised stuff is interesting, I'm not sure
it would be much more popular than Reddit.

> Our mailinglist is only used for existing people with very few new 
> signups. And currently only the mailman subscribe via mail mechanism
> is usable. [0] A technology where people from the FOSS space actually
> are would be better

I would hope that any migration would continue to support the old way
of doing things, at least for a while. Otherwise there would be a risk
of the community being lost for good.

Something which could help as an interim step would be a site using
something like Ponymail (https://ponymail.apache.org/). This allows
users to easily browse the list online and to reply online.

Thanks,
James

> [0] https://www.list.org/mailman-member/node13.html
> 
> -Till
> 
> On 16.07.23 15:24, James Madgwick wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was just going through some documentation and noticed this link is
> > still broken. While it will still be possible to sign up to the
> > mailing list, there's now no webpage explaining these things.
> > 
> > Do you think that site will be back online or is it gone for good?
> > If it's gone we'll want to remove the links to it and replace with
> > instructions for signing up etc. Unless there's a plan to migrate
> > elsewhere. I would support that, I see mailing lists as increasingly
> > retro and a barrier to entry for new contributors.
> > 
> > 
> > James
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 9 May 2023 09:43:52 +0200
> > Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Yeah sorry about that. I wanted to change the lists host as to not
> >> conflict with GitHub pages anymore but alas GNU mailman is not
> >> wanting me to do that.
> >>
> >> I'll have to check how to change anything there. Personally I would
> >> prefer to migrate to topicbox like all other distros did. But we
> >> will have to see.
> >>
> >> For now use https://www.mail-archive.com/ as archive.
> >>
> >> -Till
> >>
> >> On 09.05.23 08:09, Carl Brewer wrote:
> >>> On 9/05/2023 4:08 pm, Espen Martinsen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> ... as found in the archive :-)
> >>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org/
> >>>
> >>> That'll do it.  Maybe whomever runs the list, can fix the footer
> >>> to have that in it?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ____________________
> >>>>> openindiana-discuss mailing list
> >>>>> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> >>>>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
> >>>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>> That's wrong!
> >>>
> >>> Carl
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
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