[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:10:18AM +0000, Martin Burns wrote:

> How many tips do we get these days?

thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021007.mbox:Number of tips    : 10
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021014.mbox:Number of tips    : 5
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021021.mbox:Number of tips    : 13
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021028.mbox:Number of tips    : 9
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021104.mbox:Number of tips    : 9
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021111.mbox:Number of tips    : 37
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021118.mbox:Number of tips    : 12
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021125.mbox:Number of tips    : 13
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021202.mbox:Number of tips    : 14
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021209.mbox:Number of tips    : 9
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021216.mbox:Number of tips    : 9
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021223.mbox:Number of tips    : 4
thelist-Week-of-Mon-20021230.mbox:Number of tips    : 5


> > >8) Remove dependence on ColdFusion for l.e.o pages, unless
> > >   hosting on CF box
>
> That's, what, about 2 pages? Handleable in a weo FAQ article, surely.

And all of the tip harvester pages that rely on the Oracle database.


> > >9) Tracking sub/unsub in Oracle
>
> Remind me why?

It allows me to figure out when someone subscribed to thelist so that
I can score the merits of giving them a m.e.o.


> > >10) Aliases, virtusertable
>
> Again, remind me why?

All mailman lists need to have aliases updated.  We use the
virtusertable to handle e-mail coming to *@evolt.org addresses that
aren't mapped.


> I'm still struggling to understand what these give us (other than more
> work in the migration) above the current Mailman featureset.

Archive munging and suspicious header tracking are what I've done.
I'm not sure what Dan did but we can probably drop it now.

Dean