[Scons-dev] [scons-dev] New scons-dev mailing list

[Gary Oberbrunner]

What about Nabble? We can also gateway there if it is better. Just a
thought.

Gary (sent by my Android)
On May 28, 2012 12:38 PM, "anatoly techtonik" <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>

> wrote:

> >

> >> Switch to Mailman only makes sense if it is Mailman 3. Web archive is

> >> unusable without search.

> >>

> > I'm not sure what version of Mailman it is; please let me know what you

> > find.  Looking at list.org, it says the current version of mailman

> > is  2.1.15rc1, released on 15-May-2012, so I'm not sure about mailman 3.

>  We

> > can also gateway it to gmane, which has good searching and topic

> threading.

>

> Mailman 3 is still in beta, but it will be interesting to try it.

> Gmane gateway is a 'proper archive' actually, but it has one annoying

> 'feature' - threads are not moved up if updated.

>

> >>

> >> My proposal are Google Groups.

> >

> >

> > That was my initial thought too.  It has a lot of advantages.  However,

> I am

> > currently administering a set of Google Groups lists for another

> open-source

> > project, and I have to say it's a bit of a pain.  Many people don't have

> a

> > Google account, or don't want to use their personal gmail for that list.

>  Of

> > course you can create a Google Account tied to any email address, it's

> not

> > that simple for many people and it doesn't work well if you also use

> Google

> > Apps; the single-signon system doesn't really work with Apps.  Anyway I

> find

> > people dropping off or failing to complete their subscriptions and I'd

> like

> > to avoid any friction here, if we can.  (The Google Groups administration

> > section is also a bit hard to navigate, but my concern is more for the

> > users.)

>

> I am not administering lists, so feel free to do as you find

> convenient. I prefer to read groups from the web and for me Mailman is

> just no different from tigris.org because I still have to subscribe to

> every list and filter it manually in my GMail. But as I am already

> subscribed to SCons - it's not an issue for me. Interesting to know

> people are having troubles with subscribing for Google Account.

> --

> anatoly t.

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