717696 - Linking mozilla.community.antarctica group

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Discussion Forums, task)

Description

[Pierros Papadeas [:pierros]]

David created this : http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-antarctica

We would love to link it with a newly created [e-mail]

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Fairly sure it doesn't work like that... The correct name for the Google Group will be something like http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.community.antarctica or similar. David should not have created one by himself.

See the existing ones under http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmozilla.community

Comment 2

[Santiago Hollmann [:nuno]]

I think it is the same.

Look at the address of Mozilla Hispano:
http://groups.google.com/group/comunidad-mozilla

In the end, we will have to move the mailing list to Mozilla.

So, why don't we create a mailing list in our servers right now?

Mrz would be more than grateful to help us.

Comment 3

[Pierros Papadeas [:pierros]]

(In reply to Reed Loden [:reed] (very busy) from comment #1)
> Fairly sure it doesn't work like that... The correct name for the Google
> Group will be something like
> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.community.antarctica or similar.
> David should not have created one by himself.
> 
> See the existing ones under
> http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmozilla.community

I totally agree :) It is just the David simply did it. No way to merge those?

If not David should delete it i guess :)

Comment 4

[David Boswell]

Apologies if I did it wrong -- I had looked at how other local community sites were set up and it seemed like there wasn't a regular policy to follow here.

Anyway, this has already been announced and there are already people signed up and discussions starting.  Is there any way to link this existing group with a new list instead of deleting it and starting over?

Comment 5

[Pierros Papadeas [:pierros]]

It would be indeed awesome if we can just link them :) Would not be that hard right?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

> Is there any way to link this existing group with a new list instead of deleting it and 
> starting over?

I believe the answer to that is no - at least, it has been in the past :-| In order for the group to be set up like all the other community groups, it has to be set up in the standard way.

Over to server-ops for advice.

Gerv

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

(The second paragraph at the top of https://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/ is relevant to this discussion. I'm not sure how much more clear I can make it :-| )

Gerv

Comment 8

[David Boswell]

> (The second paragraph at the top of https://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/ is
> relevant to this discussion. I'm not sure how much more clear I can make it
> :-| )

Yes, it is pretty clear :)

Apologies -- I was going quickly and skipped some steps.

Comment 9

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

Since mozilla-antarctica is still a fairly new newsgroup, making a 'migration' with a quick announcement post sent to mozilla-antarctica shouldn't be too difficult to move the community over.

Should I go ahead and create the mozilla.community.antartica discussion forum with that in mind, or are we happy with the existing Google Group?

Comment 10

[David Boswell]

(In reply to Michael Burns [:mburns] from comment #9)
> Should I go ahead and create the mozilla.community.antartica discussion
> forum with that in mind, or are we happy with the existing Google Group?

I'm fine with the migration suggestion if that's the recommendation.

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

mburns: you appear to have created a group called

mozilla.community.antartica

However, the correct spelling is

mozilla.community.antarctica

Please can you delete the bogus group, create the new group, and let us know so we can arrange to get people to move?

Thanks :-)

Gerv

Comment 12

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

Gerv, the new list and newsgroup has been created and could take new subscriptions.

https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-antarctica

This may still block on Google Groups which isn't picking up Mozilla's newsgroups data in general including this new newsgroup.

Comment 13

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

I've sent Yet Another email to the Google Groups admin, since they seem to be responding to support requests.

Gerv, we should arrange the announcement/migration to ease the transition to m.c.antarctica.


https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.community.antarctica

Comment 14

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

Another email sent...

Comment 15

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I don't see community-antarctica listed at https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo. I expected to at least see it there. Has the list been created on our end?

Comment 16

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

Recreated and fixed.

https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-antarctica

Comment 17

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mozilla.community.antarctica exists now

Comment 18

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Fixed as per comment 17.

Gerv