Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 16:04 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list
wrote:
> Dnia 21.10.2022 o godz. 14:57:04 Patrick O'Callaghan pisze:
> > As others have said, Evolution is primarily an email client, and it
> > makes sense that its main support forum should be a properly managed
> > mailing list.
>
> A quick and simple question: who is in position to decide to move this list
> to another mailing list, hosted elsewhere? There have been already a few
> propositions on this list for an alternative. Who is the "owner" of this
> list who can decide about the move?

I think the issue is largely that Evolution is a Gnome application. Any
"official" list - i.e. mentioned in documentation and so on - should,
or really can only, be under the auspices of the Gnome organisation. If
it's not then it's just some other random mailing list.

Gnome users will consistently be pointed towards Discourse as the route
for help and support; the developers will primarily be using Discourse
as their route to helping people and receiving feedback. No matter how
often people are told that "the helpful people are over there", it
would still be unofficial and unlikely to gain traction. 

P.