Re: RfD: Removing mailing lists
Martin Schulze wrote:
> Moin!
>
> I investigated our lists a little bit. It is my understanding that
> the Debian project should serve mailing lists on lists.debian.org that
> help establishing and running the project. It is also my
> understanding that the lists served on this list server should be
> active. Depending on the topic of a list the number of subscribers
> range from a handful of people to several thousands. Concluding I
> believe that we should clean up our list server a little bit when
> lists expire, i.e. are no longer used.
>
> My investigation showed that there are quite some lists that are not
> used (anymore), but that have people subscribed. I watched the lists
> for about three weeks. There are lists that are of very low traffic
> which is intended, so they were ignored. So the following list only
> contains lists that have *no* traffic during the last three weeks and
> which I'd consider not very low traffic.
>
> If nobody objects, I'm going to remove these lists at some point in
> the near future:
>
> Name Subscribers
>
> debian-admintool >1,000
> debian-autobuild[1] >400
> debian-bugs-reports[2] >1,300
> debian-ctte 170
> debian-ctte-private 1[3]
> debian-devel-games 400
> debian-dpkg-bugs 70
> debian-freshmeat[4] 890
> debian-l10n-hellas[5] 15
> debain-partners[6] 7
> debian-pool 200
> debian-snapshots 260
> opensource-publicity 3
> other-gnomehack[7] 160
> sourcedoc 2
Add debian-qa-private here. It's not private, it's not used, and it didn't
contain useful mails for a looooooooooong while.
Regards,
Joey
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