Re: [savannah-help-public] Mailman bug after editing HTML

[Bob Proulx]

Hello Francisco,

Francisco Vila wrote:
> I am the maintainer of a list in lists.gnu.org. I'd like to contact the
> webmaster of lists.gnu.org because I reach an error page after trying to
> edit some code in the presentation page.

The problem seems to be an ownership problem on lists.

  lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 list list 4513 2010-01-01 20:38 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html

In order to write it from the web it needs to be user www-data.  For
example here is a working listing.

  lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data list 4181 2017-11-03 14:55 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html

I will forward this problem to the FSF admins for fixing.  I can only
look.  I lack sufficient permission to chown there.

> Please forgive me if this is not the right place to contact the webmaster.

Generally for webmaster things it is better to mail them directly
using the webmaster address.  The savannah-hackers are the volunteers
who take care of Savannah.  Savannah is the software forge
infrastructure available for use by GNU Projects.  The mailing lists
are yet again a separate and unrelated infrastructure service.  A
couple of us do volunteer in several different areas though so I will
go ahead and answer here.  This problem you are reporting is a Mailman
problem and so probably sending to address@hidden would have been the
best address to report this problem.  Also Ian is one of the FSF
admins and is now subscribed to that address and helps out there.  But
no matter now.  I will go ahead and forward it and it will get fixed.
Thanks for reporting the problem.

Bob