[Announcements] Sakai Collab Email List Migration

[Nate Angell]

Resending as it doesn't look like it got through last time.

Peter: Is there any possibility that we can use this migration to  
solve an issue that's been vexing me for some time?

The Sakai mailing lists work with two different domains, eg, both
sakai-dev at sakaiproject.org
and
sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org

This causes harvesters like nabble to not miss some posts as nabble  
only recognizes one domain for the list.

My vote would be to get rid of all the "@collab." domains.

On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Knoop, Peter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Around 10:00am Eastern US time tomorrow (Thursday) we will be  
> switching the Sakai community email lists to a new server.  
> Previously the lists were hosted by an instance of Sakai called  
> Collab, and we will be moving them to a mailman list-serve. The list  
> addresses will not change, so you will not need to update your  
> address book or filters.
>
> This is a temporary solution for the recent issues with Collab, and  
> also addresses our need to find a new host institution for Collab.  
> (Thanks to the University of the Highlands and Islands for hosting  
> Collab for the community for the last couple years!) In the longer- 
> term, we are looking to merge the services currently offered by  
> Collab and sakaiproject.org -- both instances of Sakai -- onto a  
> single Sakai 3 server. In the meantime, the switch to mailman will  
> also help lower the bar for folks interested in joining the various  
> Sakai community email lists, who are already familiar with the  
> necessary list serve interactions. (It will also reduce our  
> administrative overhead by eliminating the need to deal with Collab  
> password reset requests.)
>
> During this transition period I would ask you not to send any  
> messages to the lists, as we want to avoid the chance that some  
> might get lost, though we do not anticipate any specific problems.  
> If you have joined any Sakai lists in the last week on Collab, you  
> will likely need to rejoin the those lists, as our snapshot of the  
> membership data that was migrated is from earlier this week, and we  
> may not be able to update it before the migration.
>
> Subscribing and unsubscribing from the lists on the new server can  
> either be done via the web interface (once the switch is completed  
> -- its not active yet):
>
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo
>
> Or, via email by sending messages to <listname>-request at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>  (again this will only be functional once the switch is completed --  
> it is not active yet) where <listname> is sakai-dev, sakai-user,  
> production, etc., and the subject of the email is subscribe.  
> Similarly, you can send email to the same address with unsubscribe  
> in the subject line in order to unsubscribe from a list.
>
> You will also be able to continue to access the list archives via  
> Nabble, which should not be interrupted by the migration. We will  
> also investigate migrating the current Email Archive contents from  
> Collab to mailman. We also will not initially being migrating lists  
> that have not been seeing much use over the last year in order to  
> expedite the move.
>
> If you have any questions, please let me know.
>
> -peter
> Sakai Project Coordinator
>
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