I know it's hard to estimate times, but perhaps we could look at
migrating all of
lists.fedorahosted.org (aside the ones that use
filters and topics) first on the 16th, then start on the
lists.fedoraproject.org ones after that? Or keeping a status on the
wiki might be nice so people know where we are.
Agreed, I'm starting this status page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailman3_Migration/Status
Is there any news on when the filters/topics support might appear?
I don't know about topics, it was the subject of a GSoC project this
year, and I need to as the team what they think of the result.
About filters, I have writter the proper support in Mailman, it only
needs to be intergrated in the web admin UI, Postorius. If the main
migration goes well, the lists being blocked because of filters
support shouldn't have to wait too long.
> A link to HyperKitty will be included in the email footers when
your
> list is migrated.
That's actually not true, many lists have customized their footer and
I'm not sure we want to edit that (which can be tricky because of
character encoding) and add the HyperKitty link. It just seems rude
:-)
We should add a status section on the wiki with lists migrated,
lists
not yet migrated, lists waiting for features and perhaps lists
currently being migrated. Then people can just look there for status.
I'll keep that up-to-date on the Status page.
Maybe we could point them to the staging instance so that can get
acquainted with
the UI if they haven't seen it before?
Hmm, I'm worried about people actually using it to send email, since
it has a different underlying email configuration, the email may be
lost.
There's also another missing feature that was brought to my attention:
some people were using Mailman 2.1's mbox archives in scripts to parse
incoming patches, for example. While I have rewritten the "Export to
mbox" feature, some lists in Mailman 2.1 were actually exporting the
private archive, without any tinkering of the incoming email (no
escaping of email addresses, etc). This is not recommended, and to be
honest I didn't know Mailman 2.1 actually offered this feature. The
only example I was given was on a
redhat.com mailing list:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/, and I haven't found a
fedoraproject.org list with the same behavior, but I'll check that
before migrating.
Should we send the announcement now? Which list(s) do you think would
be appropriate?
Thanks!
Aurélien