[Mitgcm-support] Re: Web page + mailing lists

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

 I really think the single news group is best for this
week. Could change the name though - how about 
news:mitgcm.org/rtfm :-) just kidding.  
Problem tracking and resolution can be done via
discussion threads for now. That works reasonably
for Linux i.e. you go to dejanews, search
for your error message and voila you find out
how it was fixed, where, when etc...

 With jitterbug, wreq etc.. nobody except you, me 
and maybe Patrick will ever actually use it! Jean-Michel
seemed quite happy to ignore it.

 I think the e-mail circulation list should be open to 
anyone who wants to be on it - we aren't that rude
and disparaging are we? Weird that you automate the
subscription/circulation with majordomo but not inn. 
There must be something out there - guess I'll look in
dejanews :-).... Maybe there is a hack where you produce
a digest and send that to majordomo?

 Web page looks beautiful BTW. However, I think we should
go from a major overhaul to give something that
is much more helpful, not just a new front.

Alistair Adcroft wrote:
> 
> chris wrote:
> > Can't we start with one mailing list that is ***maintained***
> 
> There already is *one* that *is* maintained: support at mitgcm.lcs.mit.edu
> Forgetting ECCO, there's only one list and it doesn't contain
> half the people that might care about new checkpoints but those
> people probably don't want to see email like this which is why
> there have been kept off it by the maintainer.
> 
> > that has XXXX at mitgcm.org as its name
> 
> Any mailing list on chaucer will be able to be XXXX at mitgcm.org
> (so long as mitgcm.org resolves to a real machine, otherwise
> it requires the MX records for the domain to be set up properly)
> We also need mitgcm to point to chaucer which it doesn't. It also
> needs sendmail to be properly configured to not translate
> mitgcm.org to bronte.lcs.mit.edu which is where I'm sending this mail.
> 
> > and whose name does not change.
> 
> No names have been changing. There are simply a set of old lists
> from the Hypernews days which were never used by anyone. You may
> consider them deleted.
> 
> So I take it you'd rather not have a bug tracking system
> and just one newsgroup/mailing list with everyone on it?