[Bf-committers] Closing most mailing lists

[Brecht Van Lommel]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:50 PM Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.b3d at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Im okay with this but I feel the transition might be a little rough at
> first.
>

Ok, I think it will be fine if we send a last mail explaining where to go
instead.


> Side note while we are at it why not close all mailing lists and upgrade to
> a
> more modern version of mailman. AFAIK there is not an easy way to upgrade
> without starting over and our version is quite outdated.
>

As far as as I can tell upgrading mailman from 2 to 3 is possible, starting
over would be too drastic.

Either way, this is not something I personally intend to spend time on.

Regards,
Brecht.


>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Brecht Van Lommel <
> brechtvanlommel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Most mailing lists get little to no traffic nowadays, with discussion
> > having moved to developer.blender.org and devtalk.blender.org.
> >
> > The full list of mailing lists is here:
> > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/
> >
> > I propose to close all mailing lists, except the following:
> > * Bf-committers
> > * Bf-docboard
> > * Bf-blender-cvs
> > * Bf-extensions-cvs
> > * Bf-translations-svn
> >
> > Arguably bf-docboard could move to devtalk as well, but it's still active
> > so I'll leave that decision to the documentation team.
> >
> > There was an agreement on this among some core developers at the code
> > quest, but it would be good to hear if anyone objects.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brecht.
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>
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>
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