Re: [edk2-announce] Mailing List Move Day Set: April 4th

[stephano <stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com>]

On 3/25/2019 5:51 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Hi Stephano,
> 
> Can you please confirm that the current mailing list archive URLs will
> continue working? 

Yes, I'll check on this today.

> Personally, when I provide archive links (in discussions, BZs, commit
> messages etc), I tend to make sure that I include two links: one into
> the master archive, and another (to the same message) into the
> mail-archive.com archive. From these, I make sure that the 2nd one is
> always a Message-ID-based URL. The benefit is that, even if
> mail-archive.com disappears, people can construct new URLs to old
> messages, from the old message-IDs that are captured in the old URLs --
> assuming a new archive service exposes the old messages by message-ID again.

This is a good point and shows the level of detail that is preserved by 
the mailing list if maintained properly. I would assume this is part of 
the reason that the Linux kernel has continued to use mailing lists for 
patch review as this level of detail is highly desired in their case.

> In brief, please preseve the archive at
> <https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/>, albeit with locked down
> content, indefinitely.

Will do.

Cheers,
Stephano