[FFmpeg-devel] Mailman3 Upgrade

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 19/08/2025 08:55, Martin Storsjö via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025, Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> 
>> mailman2 has no good way to deal with that in a more reasonable way.
>> Mailman3 is already set up, and can be migrated to at a moments notice.
>> The only problem with it is that I really don't like the new archives.
>> It has ways to better deal with it, like better DMARC/SPF/... support 
>> in general, and support for ARC signing.
>>
>> As an example, I already migrated nut-devel:
>> https://lists.ffmpeg.org/archives/list/nut-devel@ffmpeg.org/latest
>>
>> Sooner or later, we will have to migrate no matter what.
>> Python2 is on its way out, and we will have to upgrade to an OS 
>> version that does not ship it anymore eventually.
>>
>> So the question is, should I just migrate ffmpeg-devel, and if that 
>> goes well, pull over all the other lists as well?
>>
>> In theory the migration should go without anyone noticing. It worked 
>> for nut-devel, but that's not exactly the most active list.
> 
> Can the old archives be kept in their current location (assuming they 
> don't fully alias the new URLs?) even if they don't get updates, in 
> order to keep current references working? References to old mails 
> through such URLs is quite common.
> 
> Judging from nut-devel, the old archives for that seem to be intact and 
> available, so hopefully this is not an issue.

Yeah, the old archives are just plain HTML generated by pipermail.
As long as nobody deletes that HTML, they won't go anywhere.