On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > a quality discussion on IRC this morning triggered a few question I > think are best addressed to this list. > > 1. I don't question that KDE has several groups that need a mailing > list with a private archive, only accessible to subscribers, but what > is the reason to make mailing lists hidden? The KDE Community is about > Free Software after all, so why this unnecessary secrecy? > > Here comes a list of those not visible on > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo > > akademy-announce > akademy-participant > akademy-registrations > akademy-sponsoring > akademy-talks > akademy-team > amarok-committee > amarok-devel > campkde-organizers > community-wg > dot-editors > ds-announce > ds-discuss > ds-marketing > ds-sponsoring > ds-talks > ds-team > grancanaria > k16 > kde-apps-org > kde-connect-team > kde-debian-private > kde-enterprise-web > kde-ev-campaign > kde-ev-hiring > kde-ev-membership > kde-events-au > kde-hci > kde-mirrors > kde-packager > kde-pim-meeting > kde-pr > kde-press-announce > kde-soc-mentor > kde-webmaster > khtml-devel > koffice > konq-bugs > kontact > mailman > > 2. There are quite a few mailing lists that are dead, either because > those are obsolete or were never used. IMHO the never used ones should > be removed ASAP, for the obsolete ones the archives can be preserved > but the list closed and that should be visible from the description. > Hiding dead or obsolete lists is not a good solution IMHO. > > I suggest a deadline for the dead mailing lists to be closed, how > about in a month or so? > > 3. There are still mailing lists with no description. Why does it have > to be so cryptic? Again, this is not questioning about the privacy of > a list, but a description should be at least available. > > > Regards, Myriam.
What is the criteria for a mailing list being "dead"? Another issue: are mailing lists the proper way to be distributing bugzilla notifications, or should those be handled by subscriptions inside bugzilla? From the discussions I have seen the latter is supposed to be the preferred method, but a bunch of mailing lists are still being used for bugzilla notifications. -Todd
