[12:38] <ricotz> hello, I am currently admin of https://launchpad.net/~vala-team and the original owner of the team has deleted his account. Is it possible for me to acquire the ownership?
[12:40] <cjwatson> ricotz: We can certainly consider it (though if you're already an admin then being the owner doesn't add much); please file a question
[12:40] <cjwatson> But
[12:40] <cjwatson> The owner didn't delete their own account; it was disabled administratively due to bug spam
[12:40] <cjwatson> Which was of the "forged From address" type, so possibly a compromised address book or something
[12:41] <ricotz> I see, since the account page was gone I assumed it was deleted
[12:41] <ricotz> ok, will file a question
[12:41] <cjwatson> I've unsuspended their account in favour of the newer protection we have against that type of spam, but they'd need to log in to reactivate it
[12:41] <cjwatson> If you're in contact with them then can you let them know?
[12:42] <cjwatson> (though if we suspended their account for that then they probably hadn't been active for a while)
[12:42] <ricotz> I am not in contact with Philipp Schlesinger
[12:47] <ricotz> cjwatson, https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/675870
[12:48] <cjwatson> thanks
[13:28] <cjwatson> tsimonq2: Do you actually just want to rename the team and bring the old mailing list archives with it?
[13:31] <cjwatson> tsimonq2: We don't need to export the archive to you in order to do that - we can move it across internally
[13:31] <cjwatson> (We have an internally-documented process for that - it hasn't been used for some time but AFAIK should still work)
[13:52] <tsimonq2> cjwatson: Oh, sure. We don't plan on using the LP mailing list (in favor of a private l.u.c one) but the archives should be kept.
[13:55] <cjwatson> Our process for that is https://help.launchpad.net/Teams/MailingLists#Renaming_your_team
[13:56] <cjwatson> It's a bit back-and-forth but if we do it during the working day it could happen reasonably quickly
[13:58] <tsimonq2> Sure, I'll be (consistently) around in ~ 20 minutes?
[14:15] <cjwatson> sure
[14:20] <tsimonq2> cjwatson: Alright, hi.
[14:20] <tsimonq2> The mailing list is deactivated, so I just need to purge it, right?
[14:21] <tsimonq2> (Seems a bit odd that I have to purge it and then ask an LP admin to recover it. :P)
[14:23] <tsimonq2> Hm, yeah, seems like what the docs say...
[14:25] <tsimonq2> "By purging this list, you guarantee that there are no artifacts of this mailing list (such as its persistent archives) that need to be manually changed, backed up, deleted, or renamed."
[14:25] <tsimonq2> That seems to be against what the docs imply...
[14:26] <cjwatson> I am reasonably sure that purging in fact does not delete the archive, but we can get an admin to back it up first
[14:27] <tsimonq2> Alright, I'll go ahead then.
[14:28] <tsimonq2> Renamed, and mailing list re-activated.
[14:36] <cjwatson> tsimonq2: all done
[14:40] <tsimonq2> Thanks!