RFC: Retiring inactive mailing lists

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM Christoph Cullmann <christoph at cullmann.dev>
wrote:

> Hi,
>

Hi Christoph,


>
> we have a mass of mailing lists around on
>
>
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo
>
> and many of them are totally unused or just gather bug mails like:
>
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-multimedia/
>
> Even 'my' own kwrite-devel is close to unused and I moderate xxx times
> more spam
> than real mails.
>
> My proposal would be to close most of the inactive lists and (if at all
> needed)
> point people to our
>
>
> https://discuss.kde.org/


More than happy to very enthusiastically second this proposal.

There are a number of lists - like kopete-devel and kget - which only get
moderated when the mail in their mod queue comes to the top of my "oldest
unmoderated mails" list that I receive each month.


>
>
> Greetings
> Christoph


Thanks,
Ben
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