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The day-to-day front-end to the IETF database for people who work on IETF standards.
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remove the "To subscribe" link when the mailing list for a group is no longer available. #6753

Open ghwood opened 11 months ago

ghwood commented 11 months ago

Description

Occasionally, the link to subscribe to a mailing list for a group exists on the group's About page even when that mailing list is closed and no longer available for subscription. For example: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/iasa2/about/ and https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/savi

Following the "To subscribe" link leads to a mailman message that "No such list" exists.

It would be more helpful to have an indication that the list is closed in datatracker, perhaps retaining the previous subscription information for reference. Something like:

To subscribe: The group list is no longer available for subscriptions. (Previously, subscriptions were requested via: )

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rjsparks commented 11 months ago

This will require a different integration with mailman than the datatracker currently has. It should be part of the work for reintegrating the datatracker with mailman3.

ghwood commented 11 months ago

I don't think integration with mailman (or whatever tool is used in the future) is absolutely required. An alternative would be to update this field within datatracker as part of the group concluding process. That said, integration may be preferred.

rjsparks commented 11 months ago

Making the right thing happen with closing groups in the future makes sense. But it won't fix the large number of currently broken group configurations.