I think that to "deactivate" the mailing lists you refer to would be very bad and might not even be allowed by Apache.
You cannot/shouldn't force people to create a GitHub (Microsoft) account just to talk to us. Odd as it sounds, I've had someone told me they would not submit a PR because they did not want to create a GH account. It feels counterproductive from my POV not to submit PRs but it shouldn't lock people out. There might also be parts of the world where GH is not available but Apache servers are (more of a geopolitical issue). Gary On Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 3:43 AM Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gary, > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 at 12:15, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > While it is a different community, I have received negative feedback in > > Commons against the trend to spread information all over the place, and > we > > don't use GitHub. > > > > The TLDR is that in the past it was easier to find information because > you > > only had the mailing list and later Jira. Now you have multiple mailing > > lists, Jira, emails from GitHub, plus discussions in GitHub PRs, plus > > Slack. Adding to the list is GitHub issues... > > Might I propose a split of concerns between GH Discussions and the > mailing lists: > > * We use GH Discussions as a replacement for `log4j-user`, > `log4net-user`, `log4cxx-user`. Two of these mailing lists are dead > anyway, since subscribing to a ML for a one-off question is a hustle. > * We use `dev@logging` as always for reaching consensus and decisions > concerning the directions we choose for development. > > BTW: Can we deactivate all the mailing lists except `dev`, `private` > and `security`? > > Piotr >
