[pianotech] Shedding some light on the reasons ... (was e: dues payment fiasco)

Duaine Hechler dahechler at att.net
Wed Feb 1 13:00:33 MST 2012


With the last round of emails "Website update", I decided to go to the source, the maintainer, Andy, to try and find out 
more info.

Between his emails and some thinking, I think, one of the reasons, is the platform the software ran on. Mailman ran 
under Linux, while HL runs under Windows.

My thoughts are; (a) since Andy left, they don't want to maintain anything on Linux (b) they would have to find a 
replacement for Andy (who knows the Linux systems), (c) it's much easier to find support for Windows and associated 
software, (d) HL will probably NOT run under Linux.

SO, bottom line, if my hunch is true (no one wants to support Linux), then this email list is destined to be screwed.

Respectfully submitted,
Duaine

Quote from Andy:

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Duaine Hechler<dahechler at att.net>  wrote:

> Andy,
>
> Thank you for the - straight - story.
>
> One of the proponents for the new list, kept saying that the old list was
> too hard to maintain - and - that you had made a lot of mods, therefore it
> was too cumbersome to keep and maintain.
>
> Was there any changes in the archiving process that you had to modify ?
The person who told you the move was made due to mods to Mailman has
the facts wrong.  But that doesn't mean there weren't good reasons to
make changes.  It just didn't have anything to do with modifications
to Mailman.

-andy

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Duaine Hechler
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