oss.sgi.com and mailman, looking for volunteers.

I've set up mailman on oss in an effort to dump the current list handling software (ecartis), which has been causing us fits for a while now.

I would be helpful if a few people would sign up to the new list to help test out the install and configuration, so we can make sure things still show up correctly.

The signup url is
http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs

or send an email to [email protected] with "subscribe" as the subject.

If everything works out then I will move the entire list over to using mailman.

Note the old list and new list are running in parallel so unless you have a duplicate filter unsubscribing from the old list is also recommended.
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi

The archives can be viewed at
http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/

I haven't quite come up with a plan for the archives, right now that is also running in parallel so we can lean one way or the other depending on what is preferred.

-Russell

What is the point? Let's just move the list to vger.kernel.org and we can forget about all these problems....

Cheers,

Dave.

Dave Chinner
[email protected]

Yeah. ecartis is just part of the problem. barracuda is another at least as big problem, and I guess there are many other hiding.

I suppose that this is sgi's decision in the end ;) Any comment from those folks?

-Eric

just discussing it with various people now - will send out something later today.

Cheers
-- Mark

 Mark Goodwin                                  [email protected]
 Engineering Manager for XFS and PCP    Phone: +61-3-99631937
 SGI Australian Software Group           Cell: +61-4-18969583
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ya it has dropped 39 messages this month oss[5:59pm]#formail -x Subject: -s < xfs.2008-10 |wc -l 741
oss[5:59pm]#formail -x Subject: -s < xfs-procmail-2008_10 | wc -l 780

I think using mailman will clear up the dropped mail problems.

What other issues do you think is there?

The barracuda problem is outside of oss and affects all mail from 1st.de to sgi.

Did you ever find out why barracuda thinks your ip has a "poor" rating?

I will reply later today on this

all mail to any list @sgi.com goes thru the internal barracuda spam filter.

Christoph's IP has now been whitelisted (or should have been by now). I have no insight as to which other IP addresses have a poor rating, there may be others (that are not spammers).

-- Mark

Or over to vger, as we've been discussing. I'd like to delay any significant change until (a) after we have git'ified our patch flow and tree management processes (shortly after the .28 pull req goes out), and (b) the new oss.sgi.com has been set up and all content rsync'd across. This machine exists but Trev is currently occupied on other tasks.

We're going to want more than just a new mailing list or handler. We also need a wiki for docs (news, arch, blogs, training, papers, etc), something like patchwork for tracking submissions, and more, etc. It doesn't make much sense to start setting this up on the current oss and then do it all again on the new oss.

So can we please hobble along for another week or two?

Thanks
-- Mark

That's already been set up on xfs.org. We don't need to duplicate that again, do we?

Cheers,

Dave.

Dave Chinner
[email protected]