Re: [Gimp-web] [Gegl-developer] [Gimp-user] Discontinuation of mailing lists and moving to Discourse

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

Am 18.10.22 um 02:29 schrieb Jehan Pagès via gegl-developer-list:
[...]
> Now we could always try to fight against the current and persuade
> GNOME infrastructure team, but we made a small opinion tour among the
> current core team and nobody really had particular love or use of our
> mailing lists. Also we realize it's very low volume these days (barely
> a few threads per month, counting all mailing lists together). Myself
> I barely look at mailing lists every once in a while and make a random
> answer sometimes. And there were several mailing lists I was not even
> subscribed to (I did for the sake of this announcement). So that's
> probably why none from the core team is really trying to fight this
> change.
>
> There is one more thing to take into consideration: more
> infrastructure means more work. I said it above, I am exhausted by
> this all. I was only managing one of the mailing lists so far (the
> gimp-gui one, the most recent) and still had to regularly handle
> spams. I am personally thankful that this work goes to GNOME admins now.

Spam did indeed heavily outweigh the on-topic messages on the other five
mailing lists for quite some time - and anyone who's ever maintained a
mailman-based mailing list can likely confirm that spam handling there
is not as comfortable as doing this in e.g. a capable mail client.


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Regards,
Michael