hotspot-dev seems defunct

[Thomas Stüfe]

Yes, that's how I found out about the missing mails.

Thanks, Thomas

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 15:24 Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

> fyi, the hotspot-dev archive is up to date.
>
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2020-June/date.html
>
> On 6/16/20 9:18 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> > FWIW, I CC:ed ops at openjdk to the mail Thomas sent yesterday.
> >
> > StefanK
> >
> > On 2020-06-16 14:48, David Holmes wrote:
> >> Hi Thomas,
> >>
> >> Disclaimer: I play no role in mailing list software.
> >>
> >> Not sure this is the right alias - perhaps ops at openjdk?
> >>
> >> On 16/06/2020 4:29 pm, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Me and at least four colleagues at SAP have not received mail from the
> >>> hotspot-dev mailing list since about six weeks. This issue was somewhat
> >>> hidden by the fact that cross posted mails still arrive via other
> >>> subscriptions.
> >>>
> >>> This affects recipient addresses from both inside and outside SAP,
> >>> so the
> >>> issue is unlikely to be on our side. We have also not received any
> >>> of the
> >>> usual "excessive bounces" mails and according to Stefan none happened.
> >>
> >> Two weeks ago there was an issue with RedHat folk not getting mail
> >> from hotspot-runtime-dev, and it was reported that SAP had previously
> >> had a similar issue - and I'm led to believe that in both cases the
> >> problem was an email glitch at the receivers end.
> >>
> >> David
> >> -----
> >>
> >>> Furthermore, the subscription service does not seem to work. I cannot
> >>> resubscribe, get my password, I cannot even subscribe with a brand
> >>> new mail
> >>> address.
> >>>
> >>> At first glance other MLs seem still to work but I did not check every
> >>> single one.
> >>>
> >>> Do others have similar issues or is it just us?
> >>>
> >>> This should be really solved. MLs feel unreliable now, and they are the
> >>> main channel of communication with the OpenJDK community.
> >>>
> >>> Could we implement some periodic Ping message to the mailing lists,
> >>> lets
> >>> say once per week, to notice earlier when these kind of issues happen?
> >>> Also, is it possible to resend mails?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Thomas
> >>>
> >
>
>