[ocaml-infra] Long tern project: merging lists.ocaml.org and lists.ocamlcore.org

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Sounds good -- let me check up whether or not the existing ocaml.org is
spam filtered by the University systems.  If so, we don't have to worry
about maintaining another bit of software.

-anil

On 29 Oct 2013, at 19:43, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain at le-gall.net> wrote:

> Right now this almost plain mailman. The forge create mailing list
> through standard command call.
> 
> I wish to implement a specific queue like
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/ + whitelist of email address
> extracted from the forge. This should not be too hard to implement and
> will drastically reduce the amount of spam (~1 mail every 2 days on
> admin at lists.ocamlcore.org).
> 
> The only constraint is that he mailman should be in the same container
> as the the forge.
> 
> Regards
> Sylvain
> 
> 2013/10/29 Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org>:
>> This makes sense -- I'd like to customize that front page a little to
>> categorize mailing lists better, so we could just migrate all the lists
>> over and then build some regexps to put "commits" lists separately from
>> projects.
>> 
>> Is your mailman setup customized very much at the moment on the Forge?
>> I've made no special changes to the ocaml.org one.  It's also proxied by
>> the Cambridge University mail service, so excess load shouldn't be a
>> problem.
>> 
>> -a
>> 
>> On 29 Oct 2013, at 13:39, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain at le-gall.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Just to ask if it will make sense to merge lists.ocaml.org and
>>> lists.ocamlcore.org. On the long term, ocamlcore.org will be
>>> deprecated in favor of ocaml.org. At this point we will have to make a
>>> decision about wether or not we should merge the mailing list server
>>> as well.
>>> 
>>> Pros:
>>> - injecting data from the forge (like list of valid email address
>>> extracted from forge DB) will help to reduce spam
>>> - easier to setup anti-spam for a single instance
>>> 
>>> Cons:
>>> - lots of mailing list from the forge, maybe we want to just highlight
>>> "some" important one (like wg-camlp4)
>>> 
>>> Alternative:
>>> - host mailing list on lists.forge.ocaml.org.
>>> 
>>> What's your opinion on this topic ?
>>> 
>>> This is an open question, I won't implement it tomorrow, so we have
>>> time to deal with the question.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Sylvain
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>> 
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