Hello,
As suggested in bug 291860, I am heading up an infra cleanup project to
disable/close some mailing lists. Since the list is quite large, I want
to send it out for RFC. A few of the important reasons to disable some
of our mail lists are:
* Confusing to users because there are so many lists that aren't being
used. How should you know which one is active without more research?
* More lists means more managing, more spam attempts and infra overhead.
I want to emphasize that the lists will be closed for new posts but the
archives will remain available. Disabled lists can be re-enabled by
filing an infra-bugs request. My suggestions to disable are as follows:
gentoo-doc-lt
Reason: Only 1 post, late 2008
gentoo-extreme-security
Reason: Never was a real project, 1 post.
gentoo-doc-id
Reason: Only posts have been 2 spam messages.
gentoo-forum-translations
Reason: 2 posts, 2007.
gentoo-translators
Reason: 3 posts, all spam. 2008
gentoo-arm
Reason: 4 posts total, last 2006. ACKd with team.
gentoo-gwn-fr
Reason: GWN is not active.
gentoo-gwn-pl
Reason: GWN is not active.
gentoo-dev-lang
Reason: 7 posts total, last 2007
gentoo-ia64
Reason: Not active. last 2006
tenshi-announce
Reason: Not used, current release is .11, last used for .4 2006
gentoo-scire
Reason: Dead, last 2008
tenshi-user
Reason: Not used, last 2006
gentoo-media
Reason: Besides spam, last used 2006
gentoo-proctors
Reason: Not used since 2007. 14 message total. ACKd with team.
gentoo-gwn-nl
Reason: GWN is not alive.
gentoo-doc-hu
Reason: Last project commit: 3 years ago, last ML 2007
gentoo-user-kr
Reason: Rarely used, last late 2009 with no reply
gentoo-doc-nl
Reason: last 2007
gentoo-gnustep
Reason: Keep but questionable. Probably be closed during next cleanup
gentoo-xbox
Reason: Dead project
gentoo-cygwin
Reason: Dead Project, last 2008
gentoo-gwn-de
Reason: GWN is not alive.
gnap-dev
Reason: Dead Project, some life recent but..?
www-redesign
Reason: Dead Project
gentoo-gwn
Reason: Dead project
gentoo-installer
Reason: Dead project
gentoo-performance
Reason: Not active, recent spam
gentoo-osx
Reason: Dead project
04-21-2010, 04:59 AM
Vincent Launchbury
RFC: Disabling some of our Mail Lists
On 04/20/10 22:52, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> Hello,
> As suggested in bug 291860, I am heading up an infra cleanup project to
> disable/close some mailing lists. Since the list is quite large, I want
> to send it out for RFC.
Going by archives.gentoo.org stats, the following lists are also
inactive, and are all listed as 'Primary Gentoo Mailing Lists' at
www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
If there's a reason to keep any of them, perhaps they should be split
off to a 'Low-traffic Lists' section, as I can't see them being of much
use to most people.
On 21-04-2010 04:59, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
> On 04/20/10 22:52, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>> Hello,
>> As suggested in bug 291860, I am heading up an infra cleanup project to
>> disable/close some mailing lists. Since the list is quite large, I want
>> to send it out for RFC.
>
> Going by archives.gentoo.org stats, the following lists are also
> inactive, and are all listed as 'Primary Gentoo Mailing Lists' at
> www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
>
> If there's a reason to keep any of them, perhaps they should be split
> off to a 'Low-traffic Lists' section, as I can't see them being of much
> use to most people.
IIRC, this list was created to promote a way for developers to discuss
Developer Relations policies.
Even though this is likely to be most of the time a low traffic list, I
think it still has merit - unless we chose to promote such discussions
on a different "forum".
- --
Regards,
Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections
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> On 21-04-2010 04:59, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
> > On 04/20/10 22:52, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> As suggested in bug 291860, I am heading up an infra cleanup project to
> >> disable/close some mailing lists. Since the list is quite large, I want
> >> to send it out for RFC.
> >
> > Going by archives.gentoo.org stats, the following lists are also
> > inactive, and are all listed as 'Primary Gentoo Mailing Lists' at
> > www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
> >
> > If there's a reason to keep any of them, perhaps they should be split
> > off to a 'Low-traffic Lists' section, as I can't see them being of much
> > use to most people.
> >
> > gentoo-devrel
> >
> > 2010 - 0 posts
> > 2009 - 1 post
> > 2008 - 2 posts
> > 2007 - 8 posts
>
> IIRC, this list was created to promote a way for developers to discuss
> Developer Relations policies.
> Even though this is likely to be most of the time a low traffic list, I
> think it still has merit - unless we chose to promote such discussions
> on a different "forum".
Yes but we ( as developers ) tend to handle devrel bugs in a different way.
That is open bugs and assign it to devrel. INHO this mailing list is useless
--
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
04-23-2010, 05:15 AM
Jeroen Roovers
RFC: Disabling some of our Mail Lists
> > IIRC, this list was created to promote a way for developers to
> > discuss Developer Relations policies.
> > Even though this is likely to be most of the time a low traffic
> > list, I think it still has merit - unless we chose to promote such
> > discussions on a different "forum".
> Yes but we ( as developers ) tend to handle devrel bugs in a
> different way. That is open bugs and assign it to devrel. INHO this
> mailing list is useless
Those bugs are assigned to an alias, not a mailing list. If devrel
wants a mailing list to occasionally discuss general devrel issues
publicly, then that has nothing to do with devrel bugs, which are
closed from the get go.
RFC: Disabling some of our Mail Lists
