Re: Move lists to freedesktop.org?

[Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 15:09, Brian Paul <brianp@vmware.com> 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.
>>

Also I've been banned from posting to the lists at sf.net in the past
because my smtp server was in their (wrong) RBLs. So I'm happy if the
lists are moving away.

>> 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.
>
> 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?
>

No, you still have the mailman interface to handle all this.

Stephane

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