erc-discuss renamed to emacs-erc

[Amin Bandali]

Update: the rename has been done, the erc-discuss list is now emacs-erc.
For more context, see the original announcement copied at the bottom.

At the time of writing this message, the old erc-discuss@ address is
currently set up as an alias, redirecting mail to the new emacs-erc@
address for the time being.  Please update your address books and/or
filters to use the new address instead.  If you notice any issues,
please don't hesitate to email me directly.

Going forward, emacs-erc will be the only active ERC mailing list, and
erc-announce and erc-commit are now officially retired.  As mentioned
previously, I will merge the member subscriptions from the now retired
lists into emacs-erc soon after posting this message.

The listinfo pages for erc-announce [0] and erc-commit [1] have been
updated, pointing the reader to emacs-erc [2].  The old erc-discuss
archives are preserved and continue to be available at [3].

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/erc-announce
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/erc-commit
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-erc
[3]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/erc-discuss/

Shout out to Ian from the FSF tech team for taking care of the rename,
setting up redirects, and resolving minor issues that arose after the
rename.  Thanks Ian!

Happy hacking!

                                 * * *

Amin Bandali <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello folks,
>
> Quick summary:
>
> The erc-discuss list is scheduled to be renamed to emacs-erc tomorrow.
> I have been told that after the rename, the current address will forward
> messages sent to it to the new address; but I suggest everyone update
> their address book to point to the new address once the rename is done.
>
> Longer version:
>
> I have been a happy ERC user for a few years now, and have landed a few
> bug fixes into ERC.  I recently volunteered to maintain ERC, and am now
> the maintainer for ERC.
>
> As most of you probably already know, once developed outside Emacs, ERC
> has been living in the GNU Emacs source tree for the better part of the
> last decade now.
>
> To continue and complete that transition, I would like to
>
> 1. bring the ERC discussion list under the Emacs umbrella, and
> 2. set up a nice page for ERC under the Emacs web site.
>
> As such, I have asked the FSF sysadmins to help rename erc-discuss to
> emacs-erc in order to better reflect that ERC is now part of Emacs, à la
> Org's emacs-orgmode list.  The other two ERC lists erc-announce and
> erc-commit have been dormant for years, and will be left as is.  Once
> renamed, emacs-erc will serve as *the* ERC list going forward, for both
> discussions and announcements about ERC.  Further, though we obviously
> will not be editing/changing any of the existing message archives, I
> have asked that HTTP redirects be set up so that old links using the
> name erc-discuss would not break, and be redirected to emacs-erc.
>
> To summarize and reiterate, if all goes well erc-discuss will soon be
> renamed to emacs-erc and will serve as the main and only ERC list going
> forward.  Since emacs-erc will be the combined successor of the current
> three lists, the subscribers from the three lists will be merged into
> emacs-erc once the rename is done.  Of course, anyone wishing to not
> follow the list anymore can unsubscribe at any time.
>
> I will reply to this message with upcoming updates.
>
> Happy hacking!
>
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