Dear Martijn,
I'm one of those longtimers (at least 12 years) and in that period I've read nearly 2500 messages. If asked I would prefer that the list were kept. I probably wouldn't subscribe (or, rather, register) to GitHub since I don't fully agree with the terms and conditions and I haven't a specific need (such as if I were really involved in a development project). But I understand that the spam issue may be quite bothersome.
Best regards, Federico Miyara On 15/6/2025 16:15, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
Hi all, Until a few years ago, mailing lists were the primary tool for communicating on the development FLAC and other Xiph projects. However, for FLAC, discussions have moved mostly to GitHub. Other Xiph project mailing lists have also mostly fallen silent. Spam is however still as much an issue as ever. if not worse with the advent of LLMs. Maintenance of those lists is therefore a burden that is increasingly disproportional to their use. So, there is a proposal to close the flac and flac-dev mailing lists. For the flac mailing list (for user questions) I'd say that is a done deal: nothing of much value happens there anymore. The flac-dev mailing list however has quite a few longtimers listening in and occasionally replying. This is especially valuable to have different perspectives when a new feature or functional changes get proposed. I'd like to know whether you would be willing to move over to GitHub discussions. GitHub would be the first choice because most discussions already happen there anyway. I'd like to hear some opinions on this matter. Kind regards, Martijn van Beurden _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list -- flac-dev@xiph.org To unsubscribe send an email to flac-dev-le...@xiph.org
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