[LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

[Philip Prindeville]

> On May 8, 2017, at 7:29 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 15:19 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>> 
>> *) mailing list
>> - ask david to add the openwrt-adm and openwrt lists
>> - announce the switch to the infradead serves, asking people to 
>> unsubscribe if they have privacy issues with this
>> - import the user DB from the current openwrt and lede ML into the 2 new 
>> mailing lists
>> - find out if we can redirect/auto-reply  the existing lists to the new ones
> 
> Yes, we can redirect the existing lists to the new ones — so for
> example, mail sent to lede-dev will just turn up on the openwrt-dev
> list instead. Assuming that's what you meant.
> 
> For importing subscribers, if that's what you want to do, I'd be
> inclined to send *invitations* not just subscribe people. So each
> person will get the 'someone has requested that your address be
> subscribed; click here to actually do it' message. We can write our own
> blurb to go out at the top of those invitations.


I think that would be better.  I whitelist all of my mailing list subscriptions, so the reminder that I need to add a new one (when I’m not actually subscribing myself) is always helpful.

-Philip