Re: Migration to HyperKitty / Mailman 3

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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 11:51:27AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > >> A link to HyperKitty will be included in the email footers when
> > >> your list is migrated.  
> > That's actually not true, many lists have customized their footer and
> > I'm not sure we want to edit that (which can be tricky because of
> > character encoding) and add the HyperKitty link. It just seems rude
> > :-)
> Yeah, I am fine not messing with that. 

Let's instead give really simple instructions for adding it. And make
sure it happens on at least the big lists.

Can we add it in cases where the footer isn't customized?

> > 
> > > We should add a status section on the wiki with lists migrated,
> > > lists not yet migrated, lists waiting for features and perhaps lists
> > > currently being migrated. Then people can just look there for
> > > status.  
> > 
> > I'll keep that up-to-date on the Status page.
> 
> ok
> 
> > > Maybe we could point them to the staging instance so that can get
> > > acquainted with the UI if they haven't seen it before?  
> > 
> > Hmm, I'm worried about people actually using it to send email, since
> > it has a different underlying email configuration, the email may be
> > lost.
> 
> True. 
>  
> > There's also another missing feature that was brought to my attention:
> > some people were using Mailman 2.1's mbox archives in scripts to parse
> > incoming patches, for example. While I have rewritten the "Export to
> > mbox" feature, some lists in Mailman 2.1 were actually exporting the
> > private archive, without any tinkering of the incoming email (no
> > escaping of email addresses, etc). This is not recommended, and to be
> > honest I didn't know Mailman 2.1 actually offered this feature. The
> > only example I was given was on a redhat.com mailing list:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/, and I haven't found a
> > fedoraproject.org list with the same behavior, but I'll check that
> > before migrating.
> 
> Huh. ok, weird... I didn't know people were doing this either. 
>  
> > Should we send the announcement now? Which list(s) do you think would
> > be appropriate?
> 
> Id say: 
> 
> announce
> devel-announce
> hosted-announce
> 
> kevin
> 



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