From rme at clozure.com Wed Sep 4 16:40:02 2024 From: rme at clozure.com (R. Matthew Emerson) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 16:40:02 -0700 Subject: [Openmcl-devel] mailing list migration In-Reply-To: <6746C03F-844C-4EC5-9010-D14DCB3C84FF@clozure.com> References: <6746C03F-844C-4EC5-9010-D14DCB3C84FF@clozure.com> Message-ID: <22CE2432-D4E1-4B2D-8FF8-9DC918B5D064@clozure.com> This is a reminder that openmcl-devel will be retired soon. Many people have subscribed to the replacement ccl-devel list, and the new list has seen a few messages. If you want to subscribe to the new list, send mail to ccl-devel+subscribe at clozure.com and reply to the message that it sends you to confirm your subscription. If you tried to subscribe, and haven?t seen a reply asking you to confirm your subscription, please send a new subscription request (or mail me directly and I can add you by hand). > On Aug 28, 2024, at 12:05?PM, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: > > openmcl-devel at clozure.com will be retired soon. Its replacement is a new list, ccl-devel at clozure.com . Your subscription will not be automatically moved over. If you wish to subscribe to the new list, you can do so by sending mail to ccl-devel+subscribe at clozure.com . > > For more details, read on. > > This mailing list, openmcl-devel at clozure.com , has been managed by the Mailman program for many years. > > Mailman 2, which is what we?ve been running, requires Python 2. The Python developers quit working on Python 2 in back in January 2020. Instead of porting Mailman 2 to Python 3, the Mailman developers decided to create Mailman 3, which is quite different from Mailman 2. > > At the moment, Python 2 is still available for easy installation on FreeBSD and probably some other systems, but they are warning that it is deprecated, and at some point, they will stop providing it. > > So, I?ve decided to try using new mailing list management software, namely mlmmj (http://mlmmj.org ). > > Here is the plan. > > I have created a new mailing list ccl-devel at clozure.com , managed by mlmmj. You have to subscribe to it anew by sending mail to ccl-devel+subscribe at clozure.com . [1] > > List archives for the new list will not be immediately available, but will be in the near future. I will also make the old Mailman list archives conveniently accessible somewhere. > > For the moment, the way to subscribe and unsubscribe to the new list is by sending it email. There is a simple web-based front end for subscribing and unsubscribing that I will make available when the list archives become available. > > I hate to have to do this, because it takes up time I?d rather spend on something else. Renaming the list is probably going to be disruptive as well. But I feel that I have to do something to get off Python 2. > > > > 1. There is no technical reason I couldn?t automatically add all current subscribers, but I don?t feel like that?s appropriate. I would rather have people take explicit action. >