[ckan-dev] [** Important **] Migrating to a new mailing list

[Adrià Mercader]

Hi,

Apologies for the late reply on this.
I understand and share some of the concerns about relying on a
platform like Google but the reality is that it was the best
alternative considering the tech team resources and the work involved
in maintaining the list, and that the stewards already use the
platform for managing other things like email.

Adrià

Adrià

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 17:25, von Waldow, Harald
<Harald.vonWaldow at eawag.ch> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 11:43 +0100, Ladislav Nesnera wrote:
> > A regrettable decision  :-(
>
> Full ACK.
>
> This is poor choice, both, regarding reliability and the mismatch with
> what CKAN stands for: A technically sophisticated self-hosted open
> source solution.
>
> Neither Link Digital nor Datopian are able to provide a simple mailing-
> list for the world’s leading Open Source data portal platform?
>
> Kind regards,
> Harald
>
> >
> > On 2019-11-23 00:57, Adrià Mercader wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > TL;DR:
> > >
> > > * This mailing list is shutting down on December 19th, we are
> > > migrating to Google Groups (Google account is not required)
> > > * You need to manually subscribe to the new mailing list, we can't
> > > do that automatically for you (see below for details).
> > >
> > > -
> > >
> > > The current CKAN mailing lists (ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org and
> > > ckan-announce at lists.okfn.org) have been kindly hosted and
> > > maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) for over nine
> > > years alongside many other projects and communities centered around
> > > open knowledge and data. OKF has decided to discontinue the hosting
> > > of all their mailing lists, including the CKAN ones, so we need to
> > > find a new home for them.
> > >
> > > We will be migrating the mailing lists to new addresses (
> > > ckan-dev at ckan.org and ckan-announce at ckan.org). These will be hosted
> > > in Google Groups, but a Google account is **not** required to join,
> > > and all basic interactions can be done in the same way as the old
> > > mailing lists (via email). Details on how to join are provided
> > > below and we encourage all current subscribers and those CKAN users
> > > who are not subscribed yet to join them.
> > >
> > > Some important points:
> > >
> > > 1. We will be **not** automatically migrating current subscribers
> > > to the new platform due to legal limitations. You must do the
> > > registration yourself (it only takes a couple of minutes, see below
> > > for details), and you can do so starting from today.
> > >
> > > 2. The current lists will be shut down on Thursday December 19th
> > > 2019. They will accept new messages until then, but we will ask any
> > > new messages to be posted to the new mailing list.
> > >
> > > 3. We will be keeping the archives of the current mailing lists
> > > public. We believe they are an important knowledge base around the
> > > project and have an historical value for the CKAN project. Once we
> > > know the final location we will share the details.
> > >
> > > Please answer this thread or reach out to our Gitter channel (
> > > https://gitter.im/ckan/chat) if you have any questions or concerns
> > > about this.
> > >
> > > ## How to join the new mailing lists
> > >
> > > There are two options depending on whether you want to use a Google
> > > account or not. Both will allow the same basic functionality (ie
> > > subscribe to new messages on the list, unsubscribe, etc).
> > >
> > > ### Option 1: Using a Google account
> > >
> > > 1. Sign in with your Google Account on https://groups.google.com
> > > 2. Visit the CKAN mailing list you want to join:
> > >     * ckan-dev:
> > > https://groups.google.com/a/ckan.org/forum/#!forum/ckan-dev
> > >     * ckan-announce:
> > > https://groups.google.com/a/ckan.org/forum/#!forum/ckan-announce
> > > 3. Click the "Join Group" blue button next to the group name
> > >
> > >
> > > ### Option 2: Using a non-Google email
> > >
> > > 1. Send an email from the email account you want to register with
> > > to ckan-dev+subscribe at ckan.org or ckan-announce+subscribe at ckan.org
> > > 2. Shortly afterwards you should receive a new email on the same
> > > account with subject "Join request for CKAN DEV ...". **Make sure
> > > to check the spam folder"**
> > > 3. Reply to that email or click the "Join Group" button on the
> > > email body.
> > > 4. You should receive a second confirmation email with subject "You
> > > have joined the group ckan-dev at ckan.org". From that moment on you
> > > should receive any new messages to the list to your email account
> > >
> > >
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