Re: [Savannah-help-public] Moving the GNU libmicrohttpd mailman mailing list

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 07:24:39PM -0600, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I'm the maintainer of GNU libmicrohttpd.  The mailinglist of the project is 
> (for historical reasons) currently hosted under address@hidden  
> However, for various reasons it would be nice if we could move that list to 
> the canonical location for GNU projects (address@hidden).  
> 
> Naturally, I would like to migrate subscriptions and the archive.  Also, it 
> has worked quite well so far to have just one list for discussions and 
> announcements, so I'm not sure that splitting it up into bug-, help- and 
> info- 
> makes sense (not to mention we have a web-based bugtracker that I'd really 
> like people to use...).
> 
> Would it be possible to just have "address@hidden"?  If not, I think 
> "help-libmicrohttpd" is probably the most appropriate name for the list.  
> Now, 
> given that there is the issue of migrating the existing archive (which is 
> already public at http://lists.cs.du.edu/mailman/listinfo/libmicrohttpd), the 
> standard approach of requesting a new list does not seem to apply.  So, 
> what's 
> the best way to do this migration?

The most simple would be:

- send us the archives in mbox format

- we create the list and import the archives

- you manually migrate (mass subcribe) the list of subscribers, and
  reconfigure the list at gnu.org

How does it sound?

-- 
Sylvain