Questions before requesting new mailing list

[James Laska]

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 11:25 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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

Cool, looks like it should be possible.  Hopefully this doesn't cause
too much pain migrating.  I filed a ticket [1] to track the list
creation and migration.

Thanks,
James

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2919
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