[Catalog-sig] Merge catalog-sig and distutils-sig

[holger krekel]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 15:42 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2013, at 3:39 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Fred Drake <fred at fdrake.net> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> >>> Is there much point in keeping catalog-sig and distutils-sig separate?
> >> 
> >> No.
> >> 
> >> The last time this was brought up, there were objections, but I don't
> >> remember what they were.  I'll let people who think there's a point
> >> worry about that.
> >> 
> >>> Not sure if there's some official process for requesting it or not, but
> >>> I think we should merge the two lists and just make packaging-sig to
> >>> umbrella the entire packaging topics.
> >> 
> >> There is the meta-sig, but the description is out-dated:
> >> 
> >>    http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/meta-sig
> >> 
> >> and the last message in the archives is dated 2011, and sparked no
> >> discussion:
> >> 
> >>    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/meta-sig/2011-June.txt
> >> 
> >> +1 on merging the lists.
> > 
> > Can we do it by just dropping catalog-sig and keeping distutils-sig?
> > I'm afraid we might lose some important distutils-sig population if
> > the process involves renaming the list, resubscribing, etc.  I also
> > *really* don't want to invalidate archive links to the distutils-sig
> > archive.
> > 
> > All in all, +1 on not having two lists, but I'm really worried about
> > "breaking" distutils-sig.  We're still going to be talking about
> > "distribution utilities", after all.
> 
> Don't care how it's done. I don't know Mailman enough to know what is possible or how easy things are. I thought packaging-sig sounded nice but if you can't rename + redirect or merge or something in mailman I'm down for whatever.

I've moved lists even from external sites to python.org and renamed them
(latest was pytest-dev).  That part works nicely and people can continue
to use the old ML address.  Merging two lists however makes it harder
to get redirects for the old archives.  But why not just keep distutils-sig
and catalog-sig archives, but have all their mail arrive at
a new packaging-sig and begin a new archive for the latter?

holger


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