Questions before requesting new mailing list

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:32:29 -0400
James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 09:28 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'm about to submit a ticket requesting a new mailing list on
> > lists.fedoraproject.org.  Before submitting, I'd like to ask a few
> > questions.  The new list is really an existing list that will be
> > migrating to lists.fedoraproject.org.  Because of this, the list has
> > existing members, and archives.
> > 
> > What is the procedure for migrating the existing subscriber list?  I
> > gather that's something I'd setup after the list is created, but
> > thought I'd ask here first.
> > 
> > Also, is it at all possible to migrate the existing list archives
> > to the new lists.fedoraproject.org location?  I suspect this would
> > be fairly painful, but again, can't hurt to ask. :)
> 
> Note, I have access to the existing full list archives (mbox), and am
> told this can be supplied to the mailmand archive script.  I'm just
> not sure if I'll have access to perform this, or if someone from
> infrastructure has the power.

Yeah, it will need to be someone in the sysadmin-tools group, but it
should be quite doable. 

We have info from when we migrated lists from redhat.com to
fedoraproject.org: 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailman_Infrastructure_SOP#Mailman_migration

kevin
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