RFC: Retiring inactive mailing lists

[Johnny Jazeix]

Le dim. 14 sept. 2025 à 13:25, Christoph Cullmann
<christoph at cullmann.io> a écrit :
>
> 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
>

Yes, it was just to give a pointer the discussion has already
happened. Few ML were archived/closed
(https://phabricator.kde.org/T16387), but most of them didn't have
answered so no action was taken.
I agree we should deactivate/archive a lot of mailing list (as you
said most of them have this mail as last mail so can probably
considered inactive and prone to be closed/merged).

Thank you for raising again the topic,

Johnny

> >
> >  Cheers,
> >
> >  Johnny
> >