[emboss-dev] Merging EMBOSS & -dev mailing list; retiring -announce, -bug, -submit lists?

[Peter Cock]

Hello all,

I have now merged the 92 emboss-dev subscribers into the main
emboss list (previously 394 subscribers, now 443).

The emboss-dev list is now effectively closed (currently any
messages require moderation, we can deliberately unsubscribe
everyone if that is preferred).

Peter

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Peter R,
>
> I will start the ball rolling on retiring the development list my
> merging its subscribers to the main EMBOSS list.
>
> I am reasonably confident that the OBF backups include the
> EMBOSS CVS records, but we will need to talk to Hilmar.
> For Biopython we did the same thing, cvs to git in one go.
> Let's continue that particular discussion off list?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter C.
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Peter Rice <ricepeterm at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Dear PeterC,
>>
>> Yes, that sounds fine. You can retire the emboss-announce and emboss-submit
>> lists.
>>
>> By the way, my Imperial email address will vanish in the near future, so
>> best to use my ricepeterm at yahoo.co.uk address
>>
>> I would also like to pursue the migration to github. It was stalled by
>> hoping for a chance to port the old CVS repository rather than starting
>> again from scratch to preserve the crediting of previous contributors.
>>
>> Is there a copy available?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 17/01/2018 11:32, Peter Cock wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Peter Rice (BCC'd) & the EMBOSS community,
>>>
>>> CC: OBF Board
>>>
>>> As you may have noticed, the OBF hosted mailman server
>>> was having problems late last year:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://news.open-bio.org/2017/11/12/mailing-list-outage-and-public-board-meeting-update/
>>>
>>> With server changes made in January, mailman seems to
>>> be coping for now. However, right now, any non-member
>>> emails received are SILENTLY DISCARDED.
>>>
>>> The OBF is looking seriously at moving to a paid hosted
>>> mailman instance to replace our volunteer administered
>>> Amazon hosted mailman server. As part of this, we would
>>> need to consolidate or close many of the existing lists:
>>>
>>> https://news.open-bio.org/2017/12/15/mailing-list-consolidation/
>>>
>>> Currently there are five EMBOSS lists,
>>>
>>> EMBOSS – EMBOSS mailing list (archive)
>>> emboss-announce – EMBOSS Announcements (Releases, etc.) (archive)
>>> emboss-bug – EMBOSS Bug Reports and Support Requests (private archive)
>>> emboss-dev – EMBOSS Development Discussion (Open to all) (archive)
>>> emboss-submit – EMBOSS submissions – new packages and apps (private
>>> archive)
>>>
>>> If there are no objections, we will close the emboss-dev list,
>>> after migrating its current subscribers to the main emboss list:
>>>
>>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/emboss-dev/
>>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/emboss/
>>>
>>> We are in the process of similar changes for the other OBF
>>> hosted projects, for example I did Biopython last week:
>>>
>>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2018-January/016339.html
>>>
>>> We would be happy to leave the announcement list running
>>> for now, but it would likely be retired as part of any hosting
>>> migration (likewise for all the other OBF project specific
>>> announcement lists).
>>>
>>> The last two lists, emboss-bug and emboss-submit, seem
>>> better suited to an issue tracker and GitHub (separately
>>> we would like to help EMBOSS' move to GitHub).
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> (Speaking here as a representative of the OBF Board,
>>> although I have been an occasional EMBOSS contributor too)
>>>
>>
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