-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Theune wrote:
Hi,
Martijn Faassen schrieb:
Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
On 2008-02-18 11:20:05 +0100, Christian Theune <ct@gocept.com> said:
Launchpad started the beta tests for their mailing list offers. A while ago we discussed this option for future hosting of the mailing lists.
The current implementation has the restriction that the mailing lists can not be hosted using custom domains (@zope.org). IMHO when migrating mailing lists the addresses should not change. I agree. I'm all for outsourcing the hosting of our mailing list, but I think it'd be a bad idea to change all the email addresses. It'll break people's settings, possibly break various archives, and so on. I think you should let them know that this this is important for us.
I'll update them to say we'll wait until we can use our own domain.
Can somebody please actually make the case for this, before we decide? Here are a couple of things I don't know about the plan: - What ongoing costs (bandwidth, mostly) are we incurring (covered by ZC, probably) to run the mailman out of our own hardware. - Will existing administrators and moderators be able to continue working with lists as easily as currently (preferably, they shouldn't even notice the change). - Will any URLs (list archives, info pages, whatever) break? - Will we be able to create new lists as easily (or more) as we can now? - What will the "switching costs" be in both directions? - Are there other advantages we should consider? All this derives from my sense that moving our issue collectors to Launchpad has been only a very minor win: - Mail-in resoponses are the best feature. - The Launchpad folks have added the 'full transcript" feature we requested. - However, thg content is no longer "ours" in terms of URL space. - We are subject to maintenance windoes which are not under our control (having the content go offline completely for hours at a pop, without even degrading to a read-only copy, is a pretty big lose). - The "switching cost" problem is still not solved for the collectors, either, Note that I'm not bashing the choice to move the collectors: I do want us to think harder about going further down that path, however. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHwa2c+gerLs4ltQ4RAs5vAJ9GL24YWK0d6pGgcoMKJSHhGh0SZgCeO5pW pxJNpbkiclANTUaEECHMknw= =dbEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----