RFC: Retiring inactive mailing lists

Nicolas Fella nicolas.fella at gmx.de
Sun Sep 14 13:30:42 BST 2025


Am 13.09.25 um 20:34 schrieb Christoph Cullmann:
> 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/

Makes sense to me.

If we do that we also need to make sure we clean up references to the 
old lists, e.g. https://apps.kde.org/ark/ refers to the kde-utils-devel ML

Cheers

Nico



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