[ANN] Mailing list migration to lists.u-boot-project.org

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 04:52:17PM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 7/15/26 7:31 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > As I've mentioned in previous release emails, we'll be migrating our
> > lists over to lists.u-boot-project.org. The news now is that we have a
> > date. This coming Monday the 20th of July, we'll be turning off the
> > receiving side of lists.denx.de and then importing everything over to
> > lists.u-boot-project.org.
> > 
> > What do you need to do? Nothing much. All active subscribers and their
> > preferences will be moved. This includes how lore and patchwork are
> > linked, so all of that will work. We are going to try and ensure no new
> > emails get lost in the migration.
> > 
> 
> OK but does that mean that whatever mail sent to the old mailing list won't
> make it to the new one once that cut off date is met (that is, yesterday...
> yes I'm really asking at the perfect time :) ). Essentially my question is:
> will we lose mails if they are *now* sent to the old mailing list. I'm
> assuming at some point in the future they will be? Is there a cut-off date
> for that?

The good news is that we were able to setup forwarding correctly, so
there's nothing being lost at the moment. A final date is something we
need to talk about off-list with the people that have access to denx.de
infrastructure still.

Nothing is being missed in *our* archives.

> > Based on feedback from the test migration, we believe we know what was
> > missing to ensure that the archive links are stable, and so that should
> > be the case when we go live again.
> > 
> 
> I think we're missing an update to lore.kernel.org to monitor the new
> mailing list now? b4 shazam doesn't pick the trailers reviewers provide on
> the mailing list since that date unfortunately (due to the mails not
> appearing on lore.kernel.org I'm assuming).

Yes. I've been trying to reach out to helpdesk at kernel.org for a while
and not had luck, unfortunately.

> I **think** there may be an issue with patchwork as well since I don't see
> my answers in there either, see https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/af0ac32e2bf603c39f490f15fe62319fd73c5282.1784423864.git.daniel@makrotopia.org/, https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/af0ac32e2bf603c39f490f15fe62319fd73c5282.1784423864.git.daniel@makrotopia.org/T/#u
> and https://lists.u-boot-project.org/pipermail/u-boot/2026-July/625465.html
> for an example.

We also had a small window where patchwork wasn't updated (and I'm
talking with Jeremy to backfill that).

-- 
Tom
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