Re: [Savannah-hackers] moving groff CVS & mailing lists to savannah

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hey,

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:04:12PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> At Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:27:47 +0100,
> Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 08:03:55AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > 
> > > The last few years groff has been hosted at ffii.org.  Now there are
> > > new maintainers but they are restricting themselves to the current
> > > activities of FFII, namely to fight against software patents.  They
> > > asked me to move groff to savannah, so here I am.
> > > 
> > > How shall I proceed?  IMHO the following tasks should be performed:
> > > 
> > >   CVS:
> > > 
> > >     . The complete groff CVS should be moved (including the attic
> > >       files).  It's probably easiest to create an account on ffii.org
> > >       for the savannah maintainers with proper access rights so that
> > >       they simply can do an `scp' command to get everything.
> > 
> > This is doable.
> >
> > >   Mailing lists (this isn't as urgent as the CVS problem):
> > > 
> > >     . The complete `groff' mailing list archive should be moved too,
> > >       but due to massive spam attacks the mbox files should be first
> > >       sent through a mailing filter to remove all spam.  With other
> > >       words, the HTML representation of the groff mailing list archive
> > >       should *not* be copied to savannah but regenerated from scratch.
> > > 
> > >     . All mailing list members (from `groff' and `groff-commit') should
> > >       be moved.
> > > 
> > >     . Finally, the forwarding from address@hidden to address@hidden
> > >       should be reversed.
> > 
> > All of this is also doable, but you would have to do the filtering of the
> > mbox yourself.
> > 
> > If you can get us access to a copy of the CVS respository, a list of
> > subscribers for each of your mailing lists and a copy of the mbox archives
> > for said lists, I can get this done.
> 
> The tarball of the full CVS repository is at
> http://www.ffii.org/~jeroen/groffcvs.tar.gz
> 
> The list of members of the groff mailinglists is at
> http://www.ffii.org/~jeroen/groff.members, the mbox archive at
> http://www.ffii.org/~jeroen/groff.mbox. For the groff-commit list
> it's http://www.ffii.org/~jeroen/groff-commit.members and
> http://www.ffii.org/~jeroen/groff-commit.mbox.
> 
> I think that's all. If more things are needed, just ask.

Thanks.  I've imported the groff repo into the CVS; created groff and 
groff-commit
mailing lists (and removed their respective aliases on fencepost) and have auto-
subscribed those in the .members files.  You should be all set. :)

The web archives will be re-generated shortly.

Elfyn

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