On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:16:14 +0200 Till Wegmüller <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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/[email protected]/ > >>> > >>> That'll do it. Maybe whomever runs the list, can fix the footer > >>> to have that in it? > >>> > >>> > >>> ____________________ > >>>>> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >>>>> [email protected] > >>>>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>> That's wrong! > >>> > >>> Carl > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
