Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Move lists to freedesktop.org?

From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: "dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>,
	Daniel,
	"mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	tfheen@err.no
Subject: Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Move lists to freedesktop.org?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:21:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269382863.16545.218.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100323123209.3bea6d9b@jbarnes-piketon>

On Die, 2010-03-23 at 12:32 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:20:46 -0800
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:16:45 +0100
> > Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:09 -0700, Brian Paul wrote: 
> > > > Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > > > Would anyone have objections if these lists moved to freedesktop.org?
> > > > > The recent thread with Linus about the drm pull request highlights the
> > > > > post lag and non-subscriber aspect of the current lists, and that
> > > > > leaves aside sf.net's horrible mail archive interface and poor
> > > > > performance.
> > > > > 
> > > > > If spam is an issue, another option would be vger.kernel.org.  That
> > > > > team runs lkml and several other very high traffic, high profile lists
> > > > > and manages quite well; performance is always high and spam is nearly
> > > > > non-existent given the amount of traffic.
> > > > 
> > > > Jesse, can you set up the new lists?  Or does someone else need to do 
> > > > that?
> > > > 
> > > > I can send you (or whoever) the current subscriber lists.
> > > 
> > > Ditto for dri-devel.
> > > 
> > > > BTW, I'm the current admin for the Mesa lists on SourceForge.  I 
> > > > manually unsubscribe people who can't figure it out for themselves, 
> > > > allow posts from non-members (sometimes), etc.  I'd gladly pass on 
> > > > that responsibility to someone else.  Would that automatically become 
> > > > the job of the current fd.o admins?
> > > 
> > > Not really, the lists should still have their own admins.
> > > 
> > > I've been going through the moderation queues for both lists on a daily
> > > basis and am volunteering to continue doing so, but other than that I'm
> > > not really keen on being a list admin.
> > 
> > I don't have access to create the new lists, but Daniel or Tollef
> > should.
> > 
> > We may as well keep you guys as admins unless someone volunteers that
> > you're ok with; but hopefully FDO will make the admin job a little
> > easier/faster.
> 
> Brian and Michel, did you guys get what you need to move the lists?
> AFAIK Tollef created them, you just need to copy the subscriber lists
> over and announce it I think?

This is the first time I've heard of new lists having been created...

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