Re: New LilyPond Spanish Users list at GNU

[Graham Percival]

2009/12/25 John Mandereau <address@hidden>:
> Le vendredi 25 décembre 2009 à 22:04 +0000, Graham Percival a écrit :
>>   Should we ask the -user-fr
>> people to accept a name change to lilypond-fr ?
>
> This is perfectly acceptable, and I think a confirmation of Valentin,
> the other administrator, will be enough to decide to request it to
> Savannah hackers.  If this happens, we should send a big fat warning on
> the list and info-lilypond, and put a news item on lilypond.org, to
> announce the name change.

I agree that if we make the change, we'd need to have lots of warning about it.

If we want to do the change, there's two possibilities:

1) ask the savannah people to change the name.

2) I make a new list, you send warnings to the old list, somebody
monitors the new list for any messages and forwards them and/or tells
the sender to send it to the new list instead... then in X months (3?
6?  12?) I can delete the old list.


The advantage of #2 is that we don't need to depend on savannah
people.  Of course, it means that all subscribers will need to sign up
for the new list... OTOH, that might not be such a bad thing, since
it'll remind them that they need to send future emails to the new
address.  If we just change their subscriptions automatically, they're
more likely to send a message to their saved (old) "french lilypond
list" alias / email contact by mistake.

Cheers,
- Graham