FYI, did send this out:
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Paoli michael.paoli@berkeley.edu Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 11:54 PM Subject: Mailman 3 listadmin testing (and potential hosting) available To: Grant Bowman grantbow@gmail.com, Grant Bowman grantbow@dvlug.org, Aaron acohen36@gmail.com, Tom tomrlopes@gmail.com, Ian droid1836@gmail.com, Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com, Al aw009@sunnyside.com
Various SF Bay Area [L]UG(s) [potential] list admin folk(s),
May potentially be some additional folks (if interested, contact me). Thought I'd invite, for possible testing, etc. some folks that are list admins of various SF Bay Area [L]UG(s), or might be potentially very seriously interested in that.
Most notably, have Mailman 3 fairly well set up (at least metastable) on the BALUG VM (still have more Mailman 2 --> Mailman 3 migration steps to fully test out and validate before I do all those migrations for the production lists, including related infrastructure of automation and information, etc.). In those regards, if folks are interested in a test list on there for potentially testing for [L]UG use and list administration thereof, just let me know. Note that there are test list(s) there currently (notably balug-test3@lists.balug.org which is on Mailman 3 and will eventually become and be merged into balug-test@lists.balug.org when that gets migrated to Mailman 3), but I was thinking more significantly and distinct from that, list(s) where I could grant folks full listadmin access and control. E.g.: sf-lug-test@lists.balug.org dvlug-test@lists.balug.org berkeleylug-test@lists.balug.org etc. Could even do different (sub)domains, e.g.: @lists.dvlug.org @lists.sf-lug.org etc., though subdomains would require some fair bit of additional work/coordination to set that all up properly (DNS, SPF, TLS, ...) so @lists.balug.org would be the simpler easier place to start and is already available. Anyway, if interested, let me know (and notably list name). If you merely want to test list, can use the existing balug-test3@lists.balug.org e.g. send email to: balug-test3-subscribe@lists.balug.org to subscribe or see: https://lists.balug.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/balug-test3.lists.balug.org...
And yes, for at least many (SF [L]UG lists), I'd be willing to host on the BALUG VM (and in general they could have their own subdomain, in fact for actual general production use that would be exceedingly recommended, e.g. something like, say for SF-LUG: sf-lug@lists.sf-lug.org sf-lug-test@lists.sf-lug.org) But even if one mostly wants to reasonably well test out Mailman 3 and list administration thereof, the BALUG VM may be a useful place to be able to reasonably well do that (want to test drive Mailman 3 and see if it might make suitable list infrastructure for your [L]UG?).
From: Michael Paoli michael.paoli@berkeley.edu Date: Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 1:52 PM Subject: Re: dvlug list To: Grant Bowman grantbow@gmail.com Cc: Diablo Valley Linux Users Group (DVLUG) dvlug@linuxmafia.com, Diablo Valley Linux Users Group (DVLUG) list@dvlug.org
Grant,
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Oh, ... I'll also hang it out there for your consideration, if you may be interested ... if you may possibly want to have subdomain with DVLUG list(s) on <whatever>@lists.dvlug.org., I could potentially host that if you so wanted that ... but maybe ask me again in a couple weeks or so ... I'm still doing migration off of mailman version 2 (could do mailman 2 in the meantime if you really wanted that), so still have more testing, etc. to do, and want to wait a bit 'till that's all done and the dust well settled before I consider that migration to be a full success (in case I find any latent issues that may not be immediately apparent). I'd also think Rick might even be willing to do same (notably subdomain part for list) on the existing linuxmafia.com host. In any case, food for thought. Could also potentially migrate so all the old (most notably archives) would still also be present under lists.dvlug.org (similar to how things are for BALUG under lists.balug.org). Anyway, just a thought, and thought I'd hang the offer out there if you may be interested (and would also have the capability to access and back up full archives, also member subscription list). And, yeah just to think about it more generally, if you use a subdomain (e.g. lists.dvlug.org) for list(s), rather than the main domain (dvlug.org), that does leave things much more flexible for how one may want to handle list(s), most notably it can be hosted or the like, exceedingly independent of whatever else may be going on for hosting or whatever on [www.]dvlug.org (e.g. web site, etc.).