RFC: Retiring inactive mailing lists

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

I created some issue to at first at all collect some info:

https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/issues/42

Given the last real investigation what is dead was 2023 will take a new look at the archives.

Greetings
Christoph




On Sunday, September 14th, 2025 at 14:31, Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de> wrote:

> 

> 

> 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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