On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:39:22PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > A few questions, though (asking for a friend, of course). It might have > been mentioned before but I have missed it then. > > What is the long-term plan for this service? Indefinitely, or are users > kindly asked to move away from these addresses when convenient? In the > latter case lintian should emit according hints since even then this > might take several years.
We committed to supporting it for 1-2 release cycles. Speaking for myself, I plan to take a step back after the dust has settled and we see how running the service works out before setting a firm timeline. > Also, @lists.alioth.debian.org addresses that were *not* migrated now > result in bounces as expected. Are there already plans for a MBF > severity RC against all packages with a now-failing maintainer address? > This might become rather messy, I've counted some 1450 packages. I wasn't planning this work. I must admit that I did not check the numbers but I am surprised it is so high. Can you share the results of that analysis? It would be interesting to see what the distribution of packages to lists is. Thanks, Dominic.
