[Savannah-hackers] Re: A request about 'compliance' and for FSF projects in general?

[Loic Dachary]

Bradley M. Kuhn writes:
 > Ok, so there are a few non-gnu projects in savannah that are FSF-USA
 > projects.
 > 
 > 
 > They are rightly marked "non-gnu".  However, they are fsf.org projects.  I
 > suggest that the mailing lists be set to plain "@fsf.org", not at
 > "@mail.freesoftware.fsf.org".  This makes more sense, and is easier for
 > those posting to the lists.
 > 
 > 
 > How hard is this?  If it's terribly hard, we can live without it (just
 > making aliases as needed.  However, if it's not too hard, I would
 > appreciate it if you all could do it.

        It is not really hard but not really obvious either. In order
to setup mail.freesoftware.fsf.org, Guillaume Morin had to
install/configure/maintain a separate mailman. Implementing what you
suggest would imply:

        - add a fsf / non-fsf flag in the database
        - modify the admin/user web forms to deal with it
        - modify the backend scripts to deal with it
        - install/configure a new mailman dedicated to this domain
        - test/debug/stabilize

        Adding an alias is a lot easier and since that type of project is
unlikely to explode, doing it by hand does not seem too much of a burden.
Setting the prefered domain name in mailman can further reduce the visibility
of mail.freesoftware.fsf.org in favor of fsf.org although it can't really
eliminate it completly. It's even possible to implement a completly different
look (check http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/nel-all/ for
a good example of this).

        Cheers,

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