[sakai-pmc] Decommission Collab server?

[Ian Dolphin (apereo)]

That sounds like a configuration issue to me - we use a bunch of google groups and can both reply to list without going to the web interface for the group, and subscribe in the form announcements+subscribe at apereo.org - although this latter is pretty sparsely documented, and I believe I had to ask John Lewis how ...;)

We migrated announcements (merged with Jasig announcements) and the old sakai europe lists a while back. Both seem to be working OK

Ian



On 10 Jun 2014, at 13:14, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:

> Mailman provides advantages over google groups (like the ability to
> reply to the list via email without having to go to google). For
> example, learninglocker uses google groups for their mailing list and
> we have to constantly go back into google groups to enter replies
> since they do not show up to people outside the thread otherwise.
> Also they don't have support for subscribe/unsubscribe (you have to do
> that in the google group site).
> We could work around these things but it is not a simple swap.
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:
>> Hi Sakai PMC,
>> 
>> What do you think about moving all of our Collab lists to the Apereo Google
>> Groups?
>> 
>> My understanding is that the Collab system and the Jenkins system are on the
>> same physical box. If there is an opportunity to move the Jenkins system
>> then potentially we could decommission the use of that server.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how (and where) we would move Collab archives off the server
>> and keep them searchable, which I presume we would want to do? It seems to
>> me like if we make this change we would want to figure that out now.
>> Otherwise we risk not having the knowledge, energy and resources to make the
>> move (I'm kind of assuming that Anthony would help, which may or may not be
>> a good assumption).
>> 
>> I'm asking now because we need to renew the security certificate for the
>> Collab server and I was thinking maybe we would just do a one year extension
>> while we make the move. We haven't kept up with Collab software upgrades.
>> With Google Groups we wouldn't have to worry about such things.
>> 
>> Btw, I have been hearing that the real cost of moving the Jenkins server is
>> the labor involved. So it may be that there is not a compelling enough
>> reason to change that for now.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Neal
>> 
>> 
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