Greets,
I'm about to make the INFRA request to migrate our mailing lists. For new
projects, this step is documented at...
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#request-mailing-lists
Migration is a little different. Infra will set up the new lists, copy all
subscriber information, and set up forwards for the old lists. This is how
it is done when e.g. a project graduates from incubation:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2656 (Nutch migration to TLP)
I note that it is possible to set up subject prefixes:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2777 (Zeta dev prefixing)
Subject prefixes are not a tradition for Lucene sub-projects, but I prefer it,
and since Peter goes so far as to manually insert "[Lucy]" into our subject
headers, I imagine he does too. :) It is possible to filter based on
recipient, but anyone who has set up such filters is about to have them break
as the mailing list address changes from @lucene.a.o to @infrastructor.a.o --
and during a Lucy migration to TLP, such filtering would break once again.
I propose subject prefixes matching the list names:
lucy-...@incubator [lucy-dev]
lucy-us...@incubator [lucy-users]
lucy-comm...@incubator [lucy-commits]
lucy-priv...@incubator [lucy-private]
Additionally, the moderators for the existing Lucy lists are myself and Dave
Balmain (who's inactive). For the new lists, we should have more than just
me.
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#request-mailing-lists
Apache mailing lists require volunteer moderators. New moderators can be
changed later but at least one volunteer is required before the mailing
lists can be set up. Moderation is a reasonably easy task though
moderators may want to set up spam filtering. Having at least three
moderators is recommended to spread the load.
Volunteers? It hasn't been a heavy burden.
Marvin Humphrey
