RFC: Retiring inactive mailing lists

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

-------- Original Message --------
On 9/14/25 12:16, Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Le dim. 14 sept. 2025 à 12:03, Christoph Cullmann
>  <christoph at cullmann.dev> a écrit :
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > 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/
>  >
>  > Greetings
>  > Christoph
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  there was this previously discussion on the ML:
>  https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2023q2/007577.html.

That somehow ended in no action if I am not mistaken.

We could at least close stuff of dead projects like

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy

Or WebKit, ...

That will not hurt and decrease the amount of clutter.

Some lists have as last mails my mass bug close mails of dead components or the mail you cited here ;)

Greetings
Christoph

>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Johnny
>  
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