El dimecres, 10 d’agost de 2016, a les 19:10:49 CEST, R.Harish Navnit va escriure: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > recently I went through lists.kde.org and saw that there are lots of > > lists there for some short-term projects in the past, or for projects > > which > > have long since been abandoned. > > Given that it probably doesn't give a good impression if someone > > subscribes to one of those lists only to notice that nothing has happened > > there for years, would it perhaps make sense to clean up our mailing > > lists, > > killing those that are not used anymore? > > Yes it does. But could you please tell which ones you're talking about ? > > Also worth noting here, is that a project not seeing much development > doesn't automatically equate to a project with no users and the mailing > lists are the easiest way for a user to reach out for support.
A "dead" mailing list is also very useful for a justified "take over", you can send a message to it saying "i see noone is working on this, so i'll pick it up" and noone can complain later you did take it over. Cheers, Albert > But of course, if you know of any obvious cases then it totally makes > sense to clean them up. > > C > heers, > Harish
