shutting down *@s.t.o (was Re: HEADS UP: Damaged mergeinfo in our history; likely pain in our future.)

["Hyrum K. Wright" <hy...@mail.utexas.edu>]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Paul Burba wrote:

> Resending this to get it back on s.a.o.  Bert's reply (which I
> originally replied to all to) jumped it to s.t.o.  When are we
> shutting down the s.t.o mailing lists again?

I'd like to do it Real Soon Now.  We've got a rudimentary page[1] up on the new site explaining the various mailing lists and how to subscribe to them.  I think we can pull the plug whenever somebody has the guts to announce a date and follow through with it.

-Hyrum

[1] http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Re: shutting down *@s.t.o

["C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>]

Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> I'd like to do it Real Soon Now.  We've got a rudimentary page[1] up on
> the new site explaining the various mailing lists and how to subscribe to
> them.  I think we can pull the plug whenever somebody has the guts to
> announce a date and follow through with it.

We've had the footer in place for some time now, but frankly I think it's
effectively invisible.  Nobody reads those things.  I say we (the
committers) send a mail that says:

   Subject:  WE, THE SUBVERSION DEVS ARE ABANDONING THIS LIST IMMEDIATELY.

   Dear Person Interested in the Development of Subversion,

   We, the Subversion committers, are abandoning this list (effective
   immediately) so we can focus our time and attention on our new dev-list,
   dev@subversion.apache.org.  We're *not* going to shut this list at this
   time.  We'll need to port conversations over to the new list from
   time to time, and will make liberal use of the archives of this list.
   We're simply unsubscribing from the list.  Feel free to talk amongst
   yourselves, of course -- enjoy the punch and finger foods, and don't
   forget to tip the roaming bar maidens as you leave.

And then we actually do unsubscribe and stop encouraging this continued
bifurcation of our collective attention.  I would have unsubbed already if I
wasn't so concerned about missing new threads and additions to old ones.

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