[sakai-pmc] Decommission Collab server?

[Aaron Zeckoski]

That may very well be true, I didn't set that one up. If we can get
the same functionality then I am all for it.
-AZ

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Ian Dolphin (apereo)
<ian.dolphin at apereo.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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> 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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