RFC: Retiring inactive mailing lists

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM Christoph Cullmann <christoph at cullmann.io>
wrote:

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> Hi,
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> https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/work_items/42
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> should now contain state of the lists we have.
>

Thanks Christoph. The really sad part is people who have sent patches or
otherwise have been interested haven't received replies, and in my mind
that really justifies closure and redirection of those lists.

Does someone want to file some tickets and i'll then proceed with closing
down the dead lists?
(noting where needed if a list should be merged into another list)


> We have plenty that seem really dead.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>

Thanks,
Ben


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> On Sunday, September 14th, 2025 at 20:06, Christoph Cullmann <
> christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I created some issue to at first at all collect some info:
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> > https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/issues/42
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> > Given the last real investigation what is dead was 2023 will take a new
> look at the archives.
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> > Greetings
> > Christoph
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> > 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:
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> > > > Hi,
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> > > > we have a mass of mailing lists around on
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> > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo
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> > > > and many of them are totally unused or just gather bug mails like:
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> > > > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-multimedia/
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> > > > Even 'my' own kwrite-devel is close to unused and I moderate xxx
> times more spam
> > > > than real mails.
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> > > > My proposal would be to close most of the inactive lists and (if at
> all needed)
> > > > point people to our
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> > > > https://discuss.kde.org/
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> > > Makes sense to me.
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> > > 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
> >
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> > > Cheers
> >
>
> > > Nico
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