Requesting migration for desktop list

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 29 17:47:00 UTC 2015



On 10/29/2015 12:45 PM, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
>> Might this be an opportunity to also migrate the Workstation WG to a
>> separate "workstation" list? I think keeping the existing list made
>> sense when there was the possibility the that Workstation edition might
>> actually include several different desktop technologies, and might even
>> have had a different name or branding. But now, it seems mostly
>> confusing (both because people end up in the wrong place, and because
>> it muddles the message).
> Well, my concerns would be:
>
> 1) either, we wouldn't get old archives in hyperkitty if we renamed the list
> or
> 2) old links to archives would break
> 3) people's mail filters will break.
>
> But maybe we can solve those problems somehow?

I would suggest keeping it simple, throwing less variables / things to 
go wrong in the mix, and just migrate the list as-is and consider a list 
name change further down the road.

~m


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