So I was checking my email and in the Evolution mailing list that I’m subscribed to I found this:
Hi,
As we have been communicating during the past few months GNOME’s Mailman platform is being decommissioned (python2 deprecation, major burden in managing lists spam). The deadline is currently set to the end of October 2022. Mailing list subscribers are invited to migrate to GNOME’s Discourse instance [1]. Neil made sure [2] to create a set of tags you can re-use to initiate a new topic in the new platform, if a tag is missing please reach out to me directly.
Jehan (from the GIMP Team) kindly provided some instructions you can follow [3] in order to safely migrate your reading workflow to Discourse. The new platform supports several login methods including your GNOME Account and other major OpenID providers.
After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will remain alive in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used behind an alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup but on Discourse instead.
Thanks,
P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-lies, the deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two depending how soon those changes will be made available in DL codebase
[1] https://discourse.gnome.org
[2] Re: Moving final mailman lists over to discourse
[3] Welcome to GIMP forum on GNOME Discourse - #5 by Jehan - Community - GNOME Discourse
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Cheers,
Andrea
Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it
11 DAYS BEFORE they drop it… SON OF A _____ plus a few other “choice words” were uttered after this email.
Yes I’m mad about it, I’ve used this list since before Fedora was a thing and came to depend on it for troubleshooting assistance.
DAMN GNOME and their choices, yet another poor choice. I guess I’ll have to live with it though as I haven’t found another program for email, Thunderbird doesn’t allow local mail (log reports, etc.) to be set up and Clawsmail isn’t compatible with Google’s new authentication ( and I’m not a programmer) sadly.
Well, I guess I’ll let you folks get back to your day.