"people wanted to be independent of red hat" ???

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 07.06.2007 22:20, Nigel Jones wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 07.06.2007 21:13, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:07:18PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>> On 07.06.2007 18:55, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>>>>>>   We have 
>>>>>>> a current working solution in place right now for this.
>>>>>> You mean the mailman that runs this list? Or for a
>>>>>> lists.fedoraproject.org? I'm fine with doing the reorganization on this
>>>>>> server, but back months ago a lot of people wanted a dedicated server.
>>>>> Nope, I mean where its hosted now.
>>>> As I said: I'm fine with continuing to use it. But back earlier this year
>>>> 1. -- people wanted to get a subdomain with a "list" prefix
>>> Who are these people? Maybe they should speak up if this is such an
>>> issue?
>> They spoke. It's should be in the archives (December or January iirc) of
>> fedora-devel somewhere; on fab also.
>>
>> The situation in short as far as I remember it: I asked people if they
>> wanted a list prefix or not. There were people for both camps. Then
>> someone said: having a "list" in the domainname (such as
>> lists.fedora-project.org or lists.gnome.org) makes it obvious that you
>> are writing to a list. Back then that was afaics the solution most
>> people preferred.
> My understanding is this can be done without Fedora having their own
> mailman servers (I believe mailman has settings for this as I seem to
> recall Wikimedia doing this).

That's my understanding as well. It wasn't me who brought the separate
server issue up and I'm totally fine if we continue with the current
servers (but it would be really good if mike or someone else has direct
access to them).

CU
knurd