Mailing list migration - Tue, May 2nd

Hi all!

We are planning to perform a migration of email distribution for the netdev@vger mailing list on Tue, May 2nd (4PM EDT / 1PM PDT).

There should be no impact to the workflow, the only expected change will be a different set of Received: headers. The emails should start to flow via the kernel.org servers.

Konstantin also points out that this is the first ("inaugural") time a live re-plumbing of an exiting vger mailing list will be performed so minor bumps may occur. Hopefully given the very low ML traffic during the merge window any potential disruption will be of no significance.

vger have served us well over the decades (let's defer the full "thank yous" for after the migration ;)) but we're hoping that migrating to a more recent(?) stack will smooth out remaining occasional glitches. And perhaps more importantly allow us to integrate better with existing kernel.org infrastructure (lore).

Hi, all:

This is now. There will be a series of test messages I will send in this thread that are safe to ignore.

Once the move is complete and everything is verified looking good, I will let everyone know.

-K

Hi, all:

This should be the final message to test archive propagation. The move has been complete -- if you notice that something isn't working right or not looking right, or not archiving right, please alert me.

Everything regarding the list should work exactly as before, just the
Received: headers will be a bit different.

Best regards,
Konstantin

Thanks for the migration, everything seems to be working fine! Feels like an end of an era 🥲️

I don't have the right words to express the gratitude to DaveM for maintaining vger over the years, along all his other community responsibilities. Thank you!

And thanks to John for helping more recently and always answering our inconveniently timed calls!