I have just created https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists+migration with a table describing all the existing NetBeans mailing lists, as well as a next action recommendation based on the traffic I saw on the archives.
There are a lot of lists with no traffic that we could immediately make read-only. A standard message should be created and sent to the list to notify the list is closed and a pointer to the Apache list. I also believe we can do an orderly migration of [email protected] and [email protected]. These are contributor mailing lists so we can begin announcing the migration and just check for the next months that we have no discussion there. We should also set a deadline for these lists to become read-only (say, 3 months from the 1st announcement?). We should place announcements on the other mailing lists as well but set a longer read-only dead-line perhaps? I believe we need an announce@ mailing list for people that only use nbannounce@ (how many are there?) I don't know what will happen to nbweekly@ under Apache. @Geertjan: I assume you managed it mostly alone? I think it's a valuable list, we should preserve it under Apache. --emi On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Bruno Flávio <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/10/16 13:39, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > users: those using NetBeans IDE or building on top of the NetBeans > > application framework, using tags, e.g., [PLATFORM] or [JAVASCRIPT] etc. > Perhaps a good way to encourage the use of the tags would be to > customize the subscription confirmation email with a link to the wiki > and the general expectations about how the mailing list should be used. > > i.e.: > Thank you for subscribing the [email protected] mailing list. > Many discussions happen on this list at once, as such we strongly > recommend that you take a few minutes to read [WIKI LINK]. Following > those guidelines increases the user experience and improves the odds of > maintaining efficient and helpful conversations. > > Don't forget to add one or more tags to the subject line. For example, > if you have a question about groovy support in Apache NetBeans, start > the subject line with [GROOVY]. > > > -Bruno > >
