OK, today's the day the announcement re the end of the NetBeans.org mailing
lists is going to go out.

Where the announcement will be sent is listed on the same page as where the
announcement itself is described:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/[email protected]+mailing+lists

For the announcement to the NetBeans.org mailing lists, we're going to put
the e-mail address of all the NetBeans.org mailing lists in the BCC of the
e-mail and then send it in one go to all of them -- no doubt annoying some
percentage of the community, though in the end it's critical that this
message is communicated, we're still getting heaps of e-mails daily in all
kinds of NetBeans.org mailing lists and that has to stop. Better to get the
message across while annoying some people than to not have communicated
this clearly enough.

And then there'll still be some who won't have got the message and will be
annoyed later -- again, the price we pay for being in a project with a 20+
year history with a massive worldwide community, many of whom are simply
using NetBeans without being aware at all of the transition to Apache
despite our numerous attempts to communicate this.

Gj

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/27/2017 03:32 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> ...You could request a VM and set up something
> >> forum-ish there if need be. Something to consider :)..
> >
> > Also, IIUC the ponymail archive at lists.apache.org [1] can be used as
> > a kind of forum, without requiring mailing list subscriptions?
> >
> > Daniel, do you know of other Apache projects actively promoting that,
> > and how well that works for users?
>
> I don't know, but I know plenty of people who personally use it as a
> sort of forum. It does imitate a forum and allows replying via web, so
> it could be a replacement :) We could try promoting it as a forum
> replacement.
>
> >
> > -Bertrand
> >
> > [1] https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]
> >
>
>

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