<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Anton Vodonosov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodonosov@yandex.ru" target="_blank">avodonosov@yandex.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hans, could you estimate from you experience during the last years, how much<br>
</div><div>man-hours per year it took to admin <a href="http://cl.net" target="_blank">cl.net</a>?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I spent between 30 and 90 minutes each month running the mailing lists (bounce processing, user creation, user requests).</div>
<div style><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>[...] So I agree, the current problems are caused by political issue:<br>
</div><div>Who "owns" <a href="http://cl.net" target="_blank">cl.net</a>? Who have right tošobject to changes or vote about the future?</div><div>How decisions are made?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>
My reason to stop wanting to maintain <a href="http://common-lisp.net">common-lisp.net</a> was political: šDrew came up with a new <a href="http://common-lisp.net">common-lisp.net</a> without involving me or others. šHe set up a new system and infrastructure and then offered me that I could continue to contribute on that new technology stack he had chosen and set up. šI was not interested, partly because I was not part of the technology selection process, partly because I did not have time to learn new technology stack without having a good reason to do so. š</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>The trouble with <a href="http://common-lisp.net">common-lisp.net</a> is that even though it is a useful service, it is not of vital importance to the community that uses it. šThere are other hosting options, and in particular source code hosting is something that <a href="http://common-lisp.net">common-lisp.net</a>'s primary purpose used to be, but that most projects no longer use. šThe biggest value of <a href="http://common-lisp.net">common-lisp.net</a> is that it provides history in forms of URLs and working communication channels, in terms of the mailing lists. šIt would be in the best interest of the community to re-establish those services as they were before the migration happened.<br>
</div><div style><br></div><div>The new mailing list software is inferior to mailman: šIt provides no web interface, no archiving that I see, no per-list configurability, no fine grained moderation options. šThe change to that new software has been disruptive to users because subject tagging is no longer done, and new filters had to be created to get incoming list email sorted away. šWhile there may be other, invisible advantages of the new software, the switchover did not happen in the interest of the users.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>-Hans</div></div></div></div>