GRASS mailing lists migration to OSGeo

[neteler]

Due to technical problems with the itc.it domain (almost unreachable these days) and the commitment of GRASS to move to OSGeo infrastructure, I would like to request assistance to migrate GRASS Mailman lists to the OSGeo server.

The GRASS project (grass.itc.it) is using the same Mailman version (2.1.5). Hence I don't expect too many problems. I have experience in Mailman upgrade but not (yet) in change of machine.

The desired time frame is November since I suppose to lose control over 'grass.itc.it'/'grass.fbk.eu' at end of this year.

I would like to ask you suggestion on how to proceed.

Thanks in advance, Markus

[neteler]

Script to fetch GRASS Mailman mbox files

[warmerdam]

I'll take this one.

[neteler]

After IRC chat with Frank, the proposal is

1. migrate lists to OSGeo
2. rename some lists (see below)

We should use that occasion to "normalize" some list names:

grass-abm
grass-announce
grass-commit
grass-commit-addons
grass-dev
grass-es
grass-psc
grass-qa
grassgui -> grass-gui
grassuser -> grass-user
statsgrass -> grass-stats
translations -> grass-translations
weblist -> grass-weblist
winGRASS -> grass-windows

Two further lists are there ('sqlgrass' and 'nviz') which have been closed but a public archive (could be renamed to grass-sql and grass-nviz if really needed).

[warmerdam]

I have completed the following lists:

grass-abm
grass-commit
grass-dev
grass-es
grass-psc
grass-qa
grass-user

Please test these, and I'll do the rest later in the day.

As noted in IRC I will merge the subscriber lists of GRASS_Announce@… and grass-announce and then blow away GRASS_Announce (to be superceded by grass-announce).

[warmerdam]

I have migrated and renamed:

grass-gui
grass-stats
grass-translations
grass-web
grass-windows

I have also migrated grass-announce, and merged in addresses from GRASS_announce@… that were missing. GRASS_announce has been removed (archives too), in favor of the contents of grass-announce.

I believe the migration is complete. Let me know if you see any problems. If not, please close this ticket.

[neteler]

Frank,

thanks - looks all good, I have updated contact address etc. in the list configurations. However, there seems to be an oversight from my side (apologies!):

grass-user might be better grass-users

for OSGeo consistency. If a pain, we could also simply add this as alias set in /etc/aliases.

[neteler]

I meanwhile think that an alias

grass-users: grass-user

would just do in /etc/aliases.

The list reflectors at grass.itc.it have been activated. Everything seems to be functional.

[warmerdam]

Markus, I have added the grass-users: grass-user alias.

[neteler]

Great job - thanks! I close the ticket.