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

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

Paul,

that's surely something we could have done better there including sending the per-list announcements earlier, in either case if a specific list requires 2-3 more weeks to sort things out, that's fine, we're currently waiting for a set of code changes in damned-lies and are accepting any exceptions in case the migration to Discourse or to a different hosting is still in the works.

Thanks,

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 4:47 PM Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net> wrote:

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.

As has been stated before, I don't understand how anyone considered it
sufficient to announce this ONLY on the desktop-devel list.

There are thousands of people subscribed to individual lists for
individual applications that have no interest in subscribing to a
general list like "desktop-devel", but whose existing lists are still
being shut down.

It's clear, since an announcement was made last week that did it, that
sending an email to all the lists was possible.  I don't understand why
it wasn't done back when the decision was made.

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Cheers,

Andrea

Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,

GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,

Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,

GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

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