Re: Is there an option to create new lists on alioth-lists.debian.net?

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:38:06AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi alioth-lists.debian.net admins,
> 
> at first thanks a lot for the effort you did to safe alioth lists.
> That's very much appreciated.
> 
> The R-pkg team was founded basically in the process of moving from
> Alioth to Salsa.  Packages containing GNU R code was maintained by
> Debian Science, Debian Med and Debichem and we decided to leave those
> teams and found a common r-pkg team.  Since the creation of lists
> on Alioth was not possible at this time any more we are discussing
> now the options for a common Maintainer field[1].
> 
> My question is now:  Do you consider it a possible option to create a
> new list on alioth-lists.debian.net we could use as maintainer address.
> I remember this option was never officially announced but I simply
> think that asking can not really harm.  So would the creation of a
> new list drain from your time / space resources to much so we do not
> even need to discuss this third option or is this something you could
> imagine in exceptional cases?

Hi,

I'm torn on this point. On the one hand it seems wrong to set up new
addresses on the service when the infrastructure is supposed to be
temporary (even if it's for a few years). On the other hand, I see that
it's definitely still a strong candidate given the various downsides of
the other options.

So yes, creatng new lists for these types of circumstances is definitely
a possibility.

Dominic.