Re: [Savannah-help-public] creating a new mailing list

[Sylvain Beucler]

Btw I attached bug-gzip to the newly created project.

-- 
Sylvain

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:12:36PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> When you are a project admin, you can ask Savane to create mailing
> lists for your projet. The cron will launch /usr/bin/newlist which
> itself will SSH to lists.gnu.org and launch savannah_wrapper.sh.
> 
> The system impose a '$PROJECT-.*' naming convention which does not fit
> with the GNU one (bug-*), so for those lists you still need to 1)
> create them normally with mycreate_list.pl 2) attach them to the
> project using sv:infra/maintenance/ml.pl (which a Savannah Hacker
> needs to do).
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:42:50PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> > So I went to create a new mailing list (bug-gzip, to replace the alias
> > to Jean-loup that was in the aliases file), and ran mycreate_list.pl to
> > do it.  Was this wrong?  The list seemed to get created ok, in the usual
> > mailman way.
> > 
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ListServer seems to say this
> > "manual" way is outdated, but I see no alternative offered.
> > 
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/MailSystem talks about a fake
> > /usr/sbin/newlist, but not how to invoke it -- through the web
> > somewhere?  And it sounded like what it does is equivalent to running
> > the script on lists.