Re: Cleaning up mailing lists?

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 10 d’agost de 2016, a les 19:10:49 CEST, R.Harish Navnit va 
escriure:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer 
> 
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > recently I went through lists.kde.org and saw that there are lots of
> > lists there for some short-term projects in the past, or for projects
> > which
> > have long since been abandoned.
> > Given that it probably doesn't give a good impression if someone
> > subscribes to one of those lists only to notice that nothing has happened
> > there for years, would it perhaps make sense to clean up our mailing
> > lists,
> > killing those that are not used anymore?
> 
> ​Yes it does. But could you please tell which ones you're talking about ?
> 
> Also worth noting here, is that a project not seeing much development
> doesn't automatically equate to a project with no users and the mailing
> lists are the easiest way for a user to reach out for support.

A "dead" mailing list is also very useful for a justified "take over", you can 
send a message to it saying "i see noone is working on this, so i'll pick it 
up" and noone can complain later you did take it over.

Cheers,
  Albert

> ​But of course, if you know of any obvious cases then it totally makes
> sense to clean them up.
> 
> C
> ​heers,
> Harish​

Re: Cleaning up mailing lists?

[R.Harish Navnit]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> recently I went through lists.kde.org and saw that there are lots of
> lists there for some short-term projects in the past, or for projects which
> have long since been abandoned.
> Given that it probably doesn't give a good impression if someone
> subscribes to one of those lists only to notice that nothing has happened
> there for years, would it perhaps make sense to clean up our mailing lists,
> killing those that are not used anymore?
>
​Yes it does. But could you please tell which ones you're talking about ?

Also worth noting here, is that a project not seeing much development
doesn't automatically equate to a project with no users and the mailing
lists are the easiest way for a user to reach out for support.
​But of course, if you know of any obvious cases then it totally makes
sense to clean them up.

C
​heers,
Harish​

Cleaning up mailing lists?

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

Hi everyone,
recently I went through lists.kde.org and saw that there are lots of lists there 
for some short-term projects in the past, or for projects which have long since 
been abandoned.
Given that it probably doesn't give a good impression if someone subscribes to 
one of those lists only to notice that nothing has happened there for years, 
would it perhaps make sense to clean up our mailing lists, killing those that 
are not used anymore?

Cheers,
Thomas