mailing list reorganization

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 08.06.2007 07:54, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
>> I don't think the best way to work better with RH IS is to bypass RH IS (:  If 
>> we come up with a way to determine who within Fedora space is allowed to 
>> request mailing lists, and come up for a way for RH IS to verify this, then 
>> it should be fine.  I think Matt Domsch has done some things like this for 
>> getting new mirrors signed up.  This doesn't sound like a hard problem to 
>> solve.
> If someone from the Fedora Infrastructure team like Mike has direct 
> access to it, that might work well. Currently it takes like a couple of 
> weeks to just setup a mailing list or close one. That is not too much of 
> a trouble but it is a pain nevertheless.

+1

Further: when I closed fedora-extras-list there was no easy way to get a
full subscribers list from the webinterface (I wanted to invite all of
them to fedora-devel) (¹). According to my research that would have been
easy with direct access to the mailman host.

An getting those lists easily would be really good *if* we want to
reshuffle more lists, as we would be in similar situation there.

CU
thl

(¹) -- yes, I know, one (often only the mailing list admins) can ask
mailman for a list of all subscribed users from the web interface; but
it's possible to set a hidden flag to not get listed there; quite a few
of our users that that flag afaik