Q: alternative hosting for strace-devel mailing list

[Mike Frysinger]

On 25 Feb 2015 13:06, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> > 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:
> >
> > Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com)
> >         by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76)
> >         (envelope-from <strace-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net>)
> >         id 1YQiY9-0003eH-LU; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:27:17 +0000
> > Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193]
> >         helo=mx.sourceforge.net)
> >         by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76)
> >         (envelope-from <ldv at altlinux.org>) id 1YQ7TU-0004c1-BO
> >         for strace-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 04:52:00 +0000
> >
> > 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.

vger.kernel.org is the only viable alternative i think

> 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 ..

ugh, please no :)
-mike
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