On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:11:33PM -0400, Mark Studebaker wrote: > My thanks to everyone as well. Great job. > > IMHO not worth merging CVS commit archives to new system. > Best way to get history of CVS is to use CVS :) Yes, indeed, having *-commits archived is a bit overkill. :) > I note that our search page needs updating. I'll do that. > I'll note that Andrew's archive has stopped getting new posts > but that the gmane archive continues to, so it is best for search. > (It was best for search before, because we relied on google for Andrew's > archive) > > Does the new system have a search function or do we need to wait for google > to find it? mailman has no native search function, there are some patches and external tools available, but nothing is really satisfying: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.011.htp When google catches up (may take some time) we can use "site:lm-sensors.org <search string here>". We could even paste a google search on this site into the archive's html pages. > Jean Delvare wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I guess that you are all aware of the mailing-list change that has > >occured yesterday. We have moved to a new mailing-list, handled by > >Mailman. This should be much more convenient than the previous > >procmail-based system. > > > >I wish to thank the following people for their help: > > > >* Philip Edelbrock has been running the previous list since its > >creation. It has been a continuous work due to the manual nature of the > >system. All it all it has worked remarkably well, except for the few > >bouncing storms which hit us in the past few years. These are one of the > >reasons, and the trigger, for the change. > > > >* Andrew Pollock has been maintaining an archive of the previous list > >for the past few years. Sure it stuck a few times, but nevertheless it > >was an unvaluable resource for us developers and for users as well. More > >recently he helped migrating the archives to the new system. > > > >* Axel Thimm has been offering to host the new list, took care of > >installing and configuring Mailman, and merged the old archives. > > > >Thanks a lot to all of you for making the list migration finally happen > >:) > > > >Now, for you users, here are the changes and a few things you should be > >aware of: > > > >* No more storms :) > > > >* All users of the old list have been automatically subscribed to the > >new list. > > > >* You can change your subscription options through the Mailman > >interface: > > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors > >So you don't need to bug Philip anymore. Another benefit is no more > >subscribe/unsubscribe noise on the list itself. > > > >* The archive is now available at: > > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/ > >The old archive will stay around for some time, but will not receive the > >newer posts. > > > >* The CVS commit messages will now be routed to a separate list: > > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors-commit > >You have *NOT* been automatically subscribed to this one, as we believe > >that not everyone is interested in these messages and they were noise > >for some of you (which is why a different list was created for them). > >So, everyone interested in these CVS commit messages should go and > >subscribe. > > > >And that must be it. If anything doesn't work as expected, feel free to > >complain to Axel, Philip or me. > > > >Thanks, > > > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20050519/812389bc/attachment.bin
