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
