Q: alternative hosting for strace-devel mailing list

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 07:51:52AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>>
>> I've configured strace.git mirrors where I push updates when
>> git.code.sf.net/p/strace/code.git is not available:
>>
>> https://github.com/ldv-alt/strace.git
>> git://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/public/strace.git
>
> This and other email messages were silently delayed by sourceforge.net for
> many hours.  For example, for this email it took about 40 hours to reach
> the mailing list:
>
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>         by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76)
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>
> I suppose there should be a more reliable hosting for mailing lists than
> sourceforge.net.  Any ideas?

I do not know of any satisfying alternative. Google groups is rather crass.

We could reach out to kernel.org or some Linux distro or some other
established project that could host the list. I dropped a note to the
postmaster @ vger.kernel.org just in case.

Or we could host it ourselves, we do not have a huge volume... we just
want some stable and well backed up mailman thing. Though self hosting
is a pain too ..

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne