Re: [gentoo-project] Are the gentoo-doc{,-cvs} and gentoo-scm mailing lists still needed?

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 15:14 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> The "All mailing lists" page [1] lists these under "Primary mailing
> lists":
>
>    gentoo-doc       For documentation contributions, suggestions,
>                     improvements and translations
>
>    gentoo-doc-cvs   Subscribe to this list if you want to be notified
>                     on changes regarding our documentation
>
>    gentoo-scm       Discussion about migration of primary Gentoo
>                     repositories to alternate SCMs
>
> gentoo-doc seems to be the mailing list of the former GDP project.
> It has seen 2 messages in 2019, and none in 2017 and 2018.
>
> gentoo-doc-cvs hasn't had any traffic since 2014.
>
> gentoo-scm has apparently fulfilled its purpose and made itself
> superfluous; there hasn't been any traffic since 2015.
>
> I wonder if these are still needed, of if they should be frozen and
> removed from the "primary" category.
>

The truth is, most of those lists are entirely dead.  Even many of those
pertaining to existing projects are not known by the project members
(e.g. when I was on BSD project, I didn't know we had a list).

Other high-ranking candidates:
- gentoo-bsd -- project dead, one post since 2014
- gentoo-containers -- total of 6 posts in 2014-2017
- gentoo-keys -- project practically dead, last post in 2016
- gentoo-server -- last post in 2014
- gentoo-admin -- last post in 2017
- gentoo-qa -- last post in 2015
- gentoo-java -- 2016
- gentoo-guis -- 2013
- gentoo-genkernel -- 2015

Plus, many of the primary lists have only 1-2 posts per year -- not sure
if those posts wouldn't be better on some wider mailing lists.

I've skipped arch-specific lists.  Many of them also haven't seen any
traffic since 2015-2017.

I've skipped international lists.  Most of them are dead as well.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny