[lxc-users] Upcoming migration of linuxcontainers.org mailing-lists

[Narcis Garcia]

I will not subscribe any service that implies accepting Google TOS.

If you need mailing list infrastructure, please ask for it and I'll be
happy to serve them (and from an LXC environment!).
I have also a wizard to export & import mailman2 lists with full
properties and full data.

To have been using Google already is not an argument, when users didn't
know and accept this. The best move is to go out of GAFAM; It's for
people's freedom and independence, the heart of free~libre technologies.


Regards;
Narcis Garcia


El 8/4/21 a les 4:59, Stéphane Graber ha escrit:
> Hello,
> 
> As part of moving some of our services to newer infrastructure,
> consolidating things where they make sense and in general reducing the
> amount of time I need to spend maintaining things, the
> linuxcontainers.org mailing-lists will soon be migrated over to Google
> Groups.
> 
> linuxcontainers.org has been a Google Workspace domain for a couple of
> years now and all e-mails in and out of our mailing-lists were already
> routed through Google's SMTP infrastructure with mailman used at the
> mailing-list engine on our end.
> 
> As I'm re-deploying all linuxcontainers.org services on new hardware
> and upgrading to more recent Linux distributions, I was left with the
> following options:
>  - Keep lists.linuxcontainers.org running on an older distro to keep mailman2
>  - Bite the bullet and go through a full migration to mailman3 (which
> for just 3 mailing-lists looks very difficult)
>  - Move to an alternative solution
> 
> As we're already using Google for all e-mail delivery and the existing
> Google Workspace plan I'm using includes the full version of Google
> Groups, that seems the easiest approach, completely eliminating any
> need for maintenance.
> 
> I've already migrated a couple of lists I used to host over to it and
> have been able to successfully do it while retaining the entirety of
> the mailing-list archive.
> I intend to do the same for the linuxcontainers.org lists, effectively
> stopping e-mail delivery to the lists, transfer the existing archive
> over to Google Groups and then move all members over.
> 
> For existing members, this should be pretty seamless with the main
> difference being for new subscribers where
> https://lists.linuxcontainers.org will now send people to Google
> Groups for membership management and for access to the archive. To
> avoid breaking all links on Google, I'll keep a static version of the
> old mailing-list archive online at their current URL so that any link
> to them will keep working in the future.
> 
> 
> I expect the transition to happen over the next week or so. I'll be
> replying to this e-mail once it's all done.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Stéphane
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