Re: Mailing lists cleanup
| From: | Jim Winstead | Date: | Sat, 20 Jul 2024 18:29:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Mailing lists cleanup | ||
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 11:22 AM, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> Hi Jim!
>
> On 18.07.2024 at 22:17, Jim Winstead wrote:
>
>> Taking the broad view of what this list is about, I wanted to jot down a list of
>> mailing-lists/newsgroups that should be made inactive. Some of these I suspect are shut down on the
>> mailing list side but just not marked as such in colobus.
>>
>> […]
>
> I cannot really comment on any of these, since I've never used them, but
> I'm subscribed to php.gd.devel for a couple of years, and it is
> obviously barely used for years[1]. The last on-topic discussions have
> been about libgd (not ext/gd), but since libgd is no longer under the
> hood of php.net (for many years now), I wonder why we still host this
> mailing list. Or is this mailing list supposed for ext/gd issues? In
> that case I suggest to shut it down, since having a separate mailing
> list for a single extension doesn't make sense to me.
libgd.org still points to php.gd.devel as their mailing list. But if it's no longer being used,
I certainly support the idea of archiving it. There seems to be some discussions on the
project's GitHub Discussions, so maybe they've moved on to there.
Jim