Hi,


On Monday, September 15th, 2025 at 20:42, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 

> > 

> > Hi,
> > 

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

> > 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)


I am not sure what the best process is.

I would assume to close all lists that not had any mail since the last 2023 
'are you alive' ping is save.

That is close to 2 years.

I guess mailman allows to re-open closed lists if ever the need arises?

All other stuff needs in detail discussion I guess.

Is our mailing list mail server able to generate more graceful bounce mails 
that contain some generic contact info like

'head to kde.org/xyz...'

for people that try some non-existing address?

Greetings
Christoph


> 

> 

> > 

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

> > Greetings
> > Christoph
> 

> 

> Thanks,
> Ben
> 

> > 

> > 

> > 

> > On Sunday, September 14th, 2025 at 20:06, Christoph Cullmann 
> > <[email protected]> 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 
> > > [email protected] 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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