On 12/19/2019 2:35 PM, Justin Mclean wrote:
Hi,
Do I understand you correctly? We can use the original google group and add a
user there with the dev@nuttx.apache.org?
Mailing list are archived / mirrored in serval places, here’s a couple:
https://lists.apache.org
https://markmail.org/search/
https://nabble.com (for some lists and it’s a more user forum like approach)
While might be possible to keep the google group and have all email copied here
and thus archived, there would be other things that would need to be carefully
considered. For context no other project has their main form of communication
outside of ASF hardware. Some projects communicate a lot via JIRA or GitHub
issues and these interactions are sent to the projects mailing list. There's a
project happening to help archive and translate instant messaging, that’s
probably 6 months or more away from working out how that works with ASF
infrastructure and ASF values.
One other consideration. Google groups may go away as some point, it’s not like
google hasn’t removed other services before. While it seems unlikely that it
will disappear tomorrow, what about in 5 year to 10 years or 20 years? Can
everyone have access it? For instance, some google services are blocked in
China. I assume you need a google account to be able to use it, can everyone
create one to be part of the project? As a comparison the ASF plans to be
around for 50+ years and keeps access open to everyone.
Thanks,
Justin
And there are things that are just as bad as "going away." NuttX left
the Yahoo group because the service deteriorated to the point it was
unusable. This was at the time when the world first realized that the
Yahoo was falling apart. The group became nearly non-functional. Mail
was not being delivered or mail would be delayed for several days and
finally showed up when it was no longer in context. It became useless.
And there was the fear that it would go away but that never actually
happened.
The old Yahoo group is archived at
https://nuttx.yahoogroups.narkive.com/ but the group itself was deleted.
I would recommend that we do the same with the Google group down the
road... archive it some where and dismantle the group. Not right at
this moment, of course, but when traffic there dies down sufficiently.
Group
