Closing wikibugs-l and mediawiki-commits firehoses? - Wikitech-l

Niklas Laxström

13 Nov 13 Nov

7:17 a.m.

2015-11-13 4:22 GMT+02:00 Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>om>:

Considering ~50% of subscribers weren't even using the list, and we only have 130 remaining subscribers between the two, who would be terribly upset at closing one or both of these lists?

It would break my workflow of following all merged commits. I have the following filters: list:"mediawiki-commits.lists.wikimedia.org" -{"Gerrit-MessageType: merged"} --> Delete list:"mediawiki-commits.lists.wikimedia.org" "Gerrit-MessageType: merged" --> Apply tag -Niklas

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Merlijn van Deen

9:43 a.m.

Disabling mediawiki-commits would break gerrit reviewer bot and releasetaggerbot, and possibly others. The mail stream is much more reliable than the ssh-based stream-events. Merlijn On 13 November 2015 at 10:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Closing either list would also break our nice replications at Gmane, markmail and mail-archive, with their useful full-text and semantic searches for commits and bugs: see also links at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview . Is there a plan to provide equally good search? I don't see progress on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63463 or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38467 and even less for Phabricator. Nemo _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Chad

9:23 p.m.

To expand on this a bit more. I think keeping mediawiki-commits is fine. It's certainly used and would break several bots. wikibugs-l has been broken for a year it would seem, the last archives I can find on gmane or mail-archive are from Nov 2014. Markmail has...2 messages ever? Considering we haven't been using it for a year, I'm going to file a task to close this list. -Chad On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:51 AM Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Fair enough. -Chad On Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 1:43 AM Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw(a)arctus.nl> wrote:

Disabling mediawiki-commits would break gerrit reviewer bot and releasetaggerbot, and possibly others. The mail stream is much more reliable than the ssh-based stream-events. Merlijn On 13 November 2015 at 10:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Closing either list would also break our nice replications at Gmane, markmail and mail-archive, with their useful full-text and semantic searches for commits and bugs: see also links at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview . Is there a plan to provide equally good search? I don't see progress on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63463 or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38467 and even less for Phabricator. Nemo _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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