[BlueZ-Announce] Closing down the mailing lists at SourceForge

[BlueZ-Announce] Closing down the mailing lists at SourceForge

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Folks,

the infrastructure of the BlueZ project has been undergone significant
changes to accommodate the developers needs. This also results in the
fact that the service providing by SourceForge is not really good enough
for us anymore.

The first big step was to finally switch away from CVS as source code
management system. It was clear that I will not switch to Subversion
since that is as broken as CVS. The only real alternative was GIT. So
starting with the bluez-4.0 release everything has been switched over. I
also decided to move the whole repositories over to kernel.org since
their infrastructure is excellent and works very well.

The next step was to move the download repositories over to kernel.org
since they do a really great job at mirroring and have good enough
bandwidth.

The last step is to close down the mailing list served by SourceForge. I
was always disappointed with their email service. It was slow, full of
spam and sometimes broken for days. I simply don't believe in having
subscriber only mailing lists. This is not how open source should be
done. Some time ago we created linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org since the
mail admins at kernel.org really know what they are doing. We are
already using this for the kernel development and in the future this
will become the only mailing list.

So it is a good idea to subscribe to linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org as
soon as possible since the SourceForge mailing lists will close down end
of the year.

The announcement mailing list has been quiet for some time now. With the
new www.bluez.org website we do have a proper RSS enabled blog. Please
use that one if you wanna stay up-to-date with releases and other
important information.

For everybody who was subscribed to the commit mailing list, you can now
also use RSS from the GIT web interface on kernel.org.

Regards

Marcel



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Re: [BlueZ-Announce] Closing down the mailing lists at SourceForge

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Marcel" == Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> writes:

Marcel> The announcement mailing list has been quiet for some time
Marcel> now. With the new www.bluez.org website we do have a proper RSS
Marcel> enabled blog. Please use that one if you wanna stay up-to-date
Marcel> with releases and other important information.

Please also CC announcements to the linux-bluetooth list; rss is not a
useful replacement for a mailing list.

Marcel> For everybody who was subscribed to the commit mailing list, you
Marcel> can now also use RSS from the GIT web interface on kernel.org.

The contrib/hooks/post-receive-email file in the git repo does a great
job of sending out email notifications.  (And I see that you are using
it for the obexd.git repo.)  That would be an ideal way to make commit
notices available.

And kudos for moving to kernel.org.

-JimC
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Re: [Bluez-devel] Closing down the mailing lists at SourceForge

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:49 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Folks,
<snip>
> The last step is to close down the mailing list served by SourceForge. I
> was always disappointed with their email service. It was slow, full of
> spam and sometimes broken for days. I simply don't believe in having
> subscriber only mailing lists. This is not how open source should be
> done. Some time ago we created linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org since the
> mail admins at kernel.org really know what they are doing. We are
> already using this for the kernel development and in the future this
> will become the only mailing list.

http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-bluetooth

<snip>
> The announcement mailing list has been quiet for some time now. With the
> new www.bluez.org website we do have a proper RSS enabled blog. Please
> use that one if you wanna stay up-to-date with releases and other
> important information.

The RSS feed isn't mentioned anywhere in the page, only in the source,
which is alright if you use Firefox:
http://www.bluez.org/feed/

Cheers


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