RFC: Retiring inactive mailing lists

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

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

should now contain state of the lists we have.

We have plenty that seem really dead.

Greetings
Christoph



On Sunday, September 14th, 2025 at 20:06, Christoph Cullmann <christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:

> 

> 

> 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:
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> > 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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