[gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] reducing number of mailing lists, for real

[Alistair Bush]

> It was suggested by some people before (few months ago), so let's
> discuss it for real.
>
> Here are my suggestions:
>
> - remove gentoo-project, we can discuss things on gentoo-dev

I'm going to sit on the sidelines for this one.

> - remove gentoo-gmn, the project is dead, isn't it?
> - remove gentoo-desktop-research, for similar reasons
> - remove gentoo-performance, for similar reasons
> - remove gentoo-extreme-security, ditto
>
> My understanding is that we would still keep the archives of those
> mailing lists, which are probably valuable.
>
> The main benefit of the mailing list consolidation is less confusion
> where to post, less fragmentation (people not reading or even not seeing
> certain discussions), and removal of dead lists which give bad
> impression when people try to use them.
>
> What do you think?

It would be interesting to know how many ppl are subscribed to each ml.  And 
also how active that ml is.

If we take the gentoo-java ml,  it is certainly not active. What im unsure of 
is how many ppl are subscribed to it.  That would let us know how useful of a 
medium it actually.

- Alistair.