On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:35:34 -0700 Tim Flink tflink@redhat.com wrote:
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Can Fedora Infra just rename the mailing list, so that all the history, settings and member list is kept intact?
I asked the same question a couple of weeks ago and the problem with moving a mailing list is that all of the existing links to archives on that list would be broken. From what I understand, creating a new list is a better way forward.
It shouldn't be too hard to extract the membership list of autoqa-devel@ and add it to the new list unless there are objections to doing so.
Just to be clear, the process I'm talking about would end up being: - request new qa-devel@ list - migrate current autoqa-devel@ membership to qa-devel@ - disable new posts to autoqa-devel@ * change list description to show closed list, request to keep it around for archives - change all the trac instances currently using autoqa-devel@ to use qa-devel@ - change the reviewboard instance to point at qa-devel@ - hunt for links and references to autoqa-devel@ in the wikis and update them
This way, no current subscribers to autoqa-devel@ would have to worry about subscribing to a new list, the old autoqa-devel@ archives would stick around, new posts to autoqa-devel@ would be disabled and the transition should be relatively painless.
Tim