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

[Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com>]

On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 11:49 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> The migration to Discourse has been in the discussion for years [1],
> further actions were also communicated in August/September [2] and
> [3]. Either way thanks for your feedback, we'll try to improve the
> process next time anything like this happens.

Indeed. Once being aware of the discussions, they are easy to find.

Apparently that many people were still surprised. At least, I was.


> List archives are mainly composed of HTML files, I don't foresee any
> particular reason on why the history of 20+ years of mails stored in
> a mail archive would be shut down in the future, please don't worry
> about that. 

Thanks, thats good to know. Your wording at ([1])

> That’s correct, all the lists listed in there will be turned into 
> RO mode, list archives will remain around for the time being.

made me unsure.

[1] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/common-questions-re-mailman-to-discourse/11841



Thomas