Suggestion to close this list

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 2:08 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This list does not have a significant amount of traffic on it since we
> switched to using merge requests.
>
>  - A handful of patches mistakenly sent to the list instead of merge request
>  - A couple of release announcements
>  - A couple of design discussions
>
>
> GitLab has the ability to attach release notices to a tag, and publicises
> them as releases. You can see an example of that here:
>
>    https://gitlab.com/virt-viewer/virt-viewer/-/releases
>
> The source code links there are the auto-generated tarballs from  git,
> but you have the option of  linking to otehr tarballs in the release notes
> text.  I'd suggest this is sufficient for new releases
>
> For design discussions, I think we can use GitLab issues.
>
> So I'm inclined to say we should close this mailing list, as it is largely
> just a trap that accidentally attracts people away from our preferred use
> of GitLab.
>
> We would not delete the list, simply configure it to reject any newly
> posted mail with a short message pointing people to GitLab.

+1.

Best Regards,
-- 
Fabiano Fidêncio