RFC: Close this list now?

[Matt Helsley]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 19:33 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as all of you probably know: Core and Extras merge. So this list
> (fedora-extras-list at redhat.com) is mostly obsolete (¹).
> 
> The plan was to get rid of this list during the general mailing list
> reorganization. But well, it looks like it will take another two months
> before it's getting realized. So I propose to close this list now, and
> use these instead:
> 
> - fedora-devel -- for most of the stuff that was discussed on this list
> in the past
> - fedora-maintainers -- for stuff that should be discussed between
> maintainer only (normally fedora-devel should be preferred, as that is
> open to non-contributors as well)
> - epel-devel-list -- for discussion around EPEL
> 
> Closing plan: send all subscribed users that are not subscribed on
> fedora-devel and mailman invite.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Cu
> thl
> 
> (¹) -- yes, Extras will further live on for FC5 and FC6 for some time,
> but well, that's IMHO not enough reason to keep this list running.

	Discussion history can be nice to have if someone every wants to
discover why the code/package does something funky. It's also useful to
quickly conclude or restart a frequent thread. Are there any specific
plans for hosting the archives? Or would Fedora be relying on external
mirrors/archives for that?

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley