Motion: Migrate mailing lists to OSGeo

[Frank Warmerdam]

Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
> 
> I would like to motion that we migrate our mailing lists to OSGeo's 
> infrastructure.  Frank and I volunteer to coordinate the OSGeo side of 
> the migration, and we would need some help from UMN folks to coordinate 
> the UMN side.  It is expected that archives and subscriber lists would 
> come as part of the migration, and failure to migrate either would mean 
> holding off.  I don't have any more details of the migration, but I 
> thought I would get the ball rolling and ensure that there is general 
> support that we do so.

+1

I'm eager to get this out where we have more influence over it!

I'd note we are likely to lose any special options set for different
subscribers.  That is, since the old system isn't mailman, I'm likely
to just grab the whole subscriber list, and all of them will be regular
subscribers (one email per message).  Digest, or "no mail" settings would
be lost.

Best regards,
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