05 Sep 06 List Migration Updates – February 2006

February 2006

Matt Ivaliotes has been converting ListProc lists to Sympa as time permits over the past year. He has recently proposed a “mass migration” that we intend to pursue. First we will poll staff to get a count of dead lists and the staff owners’ desires regarding any archives. Dead lists will not be migrated. Some programming (scripting) will need to be done to automate the conversion process. List users and owners will be notified of the pending conversion at regular intervals. Training materials on Sympa list use and management will be provided along with the notices. Both ListProc and Sympa will need to be taken down for approximately half a day to accomplish the conversion. We will do this on a weekend to minimize disruption.