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task #7920: emacs-pretest-bug no longer exists

Submitter:  Joshua Ginsberg <jaginsberg>
Submitted:  Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:19:27 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Thu 03 Apr 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Thu 03 Apr 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  System Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  zeus Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 11 Apr 2008 10:04:30 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Zeus, I take the liberty to take care of this, as I haven't seen you for a few days ;)

Jag, I set the list entry as private (only shown to members) with comment "Deprecated - now a fencepost alias for emacs-devel". It's not shown to the public anymore.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Wed 09 Apr 2008 07:06:52 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Zeus --

Perhaps I need to be more explicit.

My name is Joshua Ginsberg, Senior Systems Administrator for the Free Software Foundation, aka j00bar, jag. I'm filing this on behalf of Richard Stallman.

In August of 2007, RMS sent to the FSF/GNU sysadmins:

====BEGIN====
Subject: emacs-pretest-bugs
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:52:08 -0400
To: -email is unavailable-
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>

Can you please turn emacs-pretest-bugs into an alias for emacs-devel?

Please don't throw away the current definition of emacs-pretest-bugs.
Please keep it in case we decide, in a few weeks to change it back.

Please ack when done.
====END====

I handled this request and responded:

====BEGIN====
Subject: emacs-pretest-bugs
Date: Mon, Aug 13 2007 11:45:43 -0400
To: -email is unavailable-
From: -email is unavailable-

This has all been completed. I concluded you meant emacs-pretest-bug,
not emacs-pretest-bugs (the latter does not exist). The mailing list
configuration has been archived, the archives are still available, and
the forwarding is done as an alias on fencepost.

-jag
====END====

In the recent days, RMS has requested:

====BEGIN====
Subject: [lennart.borgman@gmail.com: No such list emacs-pretest-bug]
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:55:40 -0400
To: -email is unavailable-
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>

Please arrange for this page to give the right information
(that emacs-pretest-bug has been forwarded).

I reported this in February, I believe.

------- Start of forwarded message -------
Message-ID: <47EF7811.4090606@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:22:57 +0200
From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Subject: No such list emacs-pretest-bug

If you click on the header link (the one with a mail picture to the left
of it) for emacs-pretest-bug on

http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=40

then you will get a page

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

saying "No such list emacs-pretest-bug". The archive link works, but the
list information page gives the same error as above.

I just saw this because I asked a user to join emacs-pretest-bug.
------- End of forwarded message -------
====END====

So I'm now writing you to ask you to please remove that list from that webpage. If you'd like, I can have RMS write you himself. If you'd like, I can shell into Savannah and try to figure out how to delete it myself. I thought I'd try the path of least resistance and simply ask you nicely to remove the list from that particular page.

As I expressed on IRC, I think both RMS and the entire sysadmin staff were unaware that Savannah cataloged mailing lists and maintained links to them like this, and we've been deleting mailing lists from lists.gnu.org for years now in response to administrator requests. We will in the future refer them to the support interface for Savannah so they can be removed from Savannah as well as from lists.gnu.org

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

-jag

Joshua Ginsberg <jaginsberg>
Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:58:55 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Joshua,

If someone from the project group has problem to delete a mailing list this should be queue from someone of the project group not from someone outside.

On the other hand, this task can be done by using the mailing list configure page, marking as to be deleted.

I really think that this task must be done by someone of the project and if that cannot be done then they can send us a support request.

Regards,

Jonathan Gonzalez V. <zeus>
Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:19:27 PM UTC, original submission:  

http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=40 includes emacs-pretest-bug -- this list is non-existant -- it should be removed from that list -- Thanks!

-jag

Joshua Ginsberg <jaginsberg>

 

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