Request for a HyperKitty instance for an early adopter (Arquillian)

[Dan Allen]

The Arquillian project [1] would like to volunteer to be an early adopter
of HyperKitty. We are looking to shift from forums to mailinglists, but not
lose a user-friendly web frontend for folks just browsing for information.

We're writing to this list because we think that Fedora and Arquillian
share a common goal to see HyperKitty evolve. We can offer to hack on it
and promote it if Fedora infrastructure would be willing to give us a space
to run a public instance of it. (We're also Fedora users, of course).

We know about mm3test.fedoraproject.org, but we're hoping to be able to
point discuss.arquillian.org at to the installation (CNAME support).

We plan to actively work on HyperKitty to improve the functionality and
user experience. Therefore, we'd like to request a dedicated instance to
give us the flexibility to experiment as much as needed without having to
worry about disrupting the other lists running on it. In other words, we
want to be bleeding edge for a while :)

Let us know whether this seems like a good fit. Although we are separate
communities, I think the common goal of moving HyperKitty forward gives us
good reason to work together. Plus, we're really eager to see HyperKitty
get used for Fedora lists too.

-Dan

p.s. http://arquillian.org

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[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:22:26 +0100
Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  The Arquillian project [1] would like to volunteer to be an early
>  adopter of HyperKitty. We are looking to shift from forums to
>  mailinglists, but not lose a user-friendly web frontend for folks
>  just browsing for information.
>  
>  We're writing to this list because we think that Fedora and Arquillian
>  share a common goal to see HyperKitty evolve. We can offer to hack on
>  it and promote it if Fedora infrastructure would be willing to give
>  us a space to run a public instance of it. (We're also Fedora users,
>  of course).
>  
>  We know about mm3test.fedoraproject.org, but we're hoping to be able
>  to point discuss.arquillian.org at to the installation (CNAME
>  support).
>  
>  We plan to actively work on HyperKitty to improve the functionality
>  and user experience. Therefore, we'd like to request a dedicated
>  instance to give us the flexibility to experiment as much as needed
>  without having to worry about disrupting the other lists running on
>  it. In other words, we want to be bleeding edge for a while :)
>  
>  Let us know whether this seems like a good fit. Although we are
>  separate communities, I think the common goal of moving HyperKitty
>  forward gives us good reason to work together. Plus, we're really
>  eager to see HyperKitty get used for Fedora lists too. 
We are just now setting up a lists-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org instance
to use for more development/testing. ;) 

We should be able to setup a list for you to test things out with and
help with the development. I'm not sure I would say you should fully
switch to using this list full time, but it should be good enough to
test/devel things. ;) 

Hopefully we will have that up in the next week and can look at getting
you setup with a test list there. I would think a CNAME would work out,
but we will have to test and make sure we can handle that config
well. ;) 

Thanks for offering to help us out... I am really looking forward to
widespread deployment of hyperkitty. I think it could end up being a
really important improvement in helping communities communicate. 

kevin

[Dan Allen]

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:

>  We are just now setting up a lists-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org instance
>  to use for more development/testing. ;)
>
>  We should be able to setup a list for you to test things out with and
>  help with the development. 

Excellent!


>  I'm not sure I would say you should fully
>  switch to using this list full time, but it should be good enough to
>  test/devel things. ;)
>  
We don't really have much of a choice. We are moving Arquillian off of SBS (
community.jboss.org) and we need somewhere to land. No one in the community
wants to go to the "ugly mailman", so we are jumping in with two feet. This
community is no stranger to bleeding edge infrastructure, so we'll manage :)


>  Hopefully we will have that up in the next week and can look at getting
>  you setup with a test list there. I would think a CNAME would work out,
>  but we will have to test and make sure we can handle that config
>  well. ;)
>  
Great! A CNAME would really help for if/when we need to migrate to another
host in the future. While we can tolerate bleeding edge software, no one
likes broken links :)


>  Thanks for offering to help us out... I am really looking forward to
>  widespread deployment of hyperkitty. I think it could end up being a
>  really important improvement in helping communities communicate.
>  
I'm in 100% agreement. Like many people here, I'm on dozens of lists. I
either have the choice of a clogged inbox (or some other box) or poking
around the archive lists like it's 1995 and seeing the conversations that I
can't respond to. Up is the only direction from here :)

-Dan

-- 
Dan Allen
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action
Registered Linux User #231597

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http://mojavelinux.com
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