[ocaml-infra] Moving to lists.ocaml.org

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Out of curiosity, why not do the opposite as I suggested?

I notice that all the proponents of staying on Google Groups use GMail,
and all the opponents don't.  It seems reasonable to be subscribed to
Google Groups via the mirroring scheme that Google provides.

The search is quite straightforward.  Use Google!  "site:lists.ocaml.org
opass" reveals the recent password-handling discussion, for example.  This
seems like a problem we need to solve on all the lists, not just Core, so
I don't see why some should on Google Groups, and others on
lists.ocaml.org.

If people are desperate for this functionality, I could always register
lists.ocaml.org as a Google Apps service and host our lists via that.
However, I view Groups as something of a second-class service at Google,
and don't really trust it in the long term.  Consider the Data Liberation
Front group at Google conspicuously skipping this service from their
"export your data" campaign.

-anil

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:49:04AM -0500, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> Personally, I prefer google groups over mailman too. The main reason being
> there is no easy way to search over mailman archives, which is a basic need.
> 
> If having our own archives is the only issue, maybe just subscribe
> core at lists.ocaml.org to the current google group and disable direct posting
> to it. Thus, core at lists.ocaml.org remains behind the scenes but we have all
> messages on servers under our control.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:
> 
> > We can set up a mirror to the lists.ocaml.org mailing list as described
> > here;
> > https://support.google.com/groups/answer/46387?hl=en
> >
> > There are some unfortunate downsides to Google groups, but mainly down to
> > losing control of our archives (there's no facility to export them easily
> > to an mbox, for instance -- reconstructing it meant that the current
> > archives had to be scraped).
> >
> > Core's an important part of the future of OCaml, and we'd like to ensure
> > that we have a good central repository of the components that will make up
> > the OCaml Platform.  Part of that is moving things to  lists.ocaml.org.
> >  Spam is a concern, but we'll cross that hurdle when it becomes an actual
> > issue.
> >
> > -anil
> >
> > On 10 Feb 2013, at 10:42, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain at le-gall.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am not sure about the real advantage of moving the list. The current
> > > one doesn't have obvious problem and using mailman for
> > > lists.ocamlcore.org doesn't demonstrate me that mailman was better.
> > >
> > > Yaron, are you aware that using mailmam is probably more work day to
> > > day (not counting the amount of time you'll spend to do the migration
> > > itself). E.g, AFAIK spam filtering works pretty well on google groups,
> > > whereas it is almost absent in mailman... List archive is better
> > > presented on google group...
> > >
> > > I'll vote to stay on Googl Group, if my vote count.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Sylvain
> > >
> > > 2013/2/10 Sam <sdefabbiakane at gmail.com>:
> > >> Does this mean not using google groups anymore? If so, I'm rather sad
> > about
> > >> this. Having a decent web UI (which google groups does) lowers the
> > barrier
> > >> to participation by a lot. (And I, at least, much prefer it to getting
> > all
> > >> of the messages in my inbox.)
> > >>
> > >> On Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:29:01 PM UTC+8, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Small correction: the new address would be co... at lists.ocaml.org
> > >>>
> > >>> y
> > >>>
> > >>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Yaron Minsky <ymi... at janestreet.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>> Now that ocaml.org has an operational listserv, I'd like to migrate
> > >>>> this group over to a mailing list on that site, namely,
> > >>>> co... at ocaml.org.  My current plan is to migrate the list over in a
> > >>>> week.  Does anyone object to simply auto-subscribing people who are
> > >>>> subscribed to this mailing list to the new list at ocaml.org?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> y
> > >>
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