[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#883906: lists.debian.org: please create debian-fonts mailing list

[Adam Borowski]

Package: lists.debian.org
Severity: wishlist

Hi!
After some confusion about Alioth shutdown (sorry for the delay!), it turns
out we need a mailing list for the fonts team, for discussions when IRC is
not enough.

This is currently done on the Alioth discussion list, although because of
Alioth's spam filtering being nearly non-existant, the list hasn't seen much
real traffic.  For example, in October there were 35 non-spam non-bug
non-ACCEPTED/REJECTED mails, but not a single one in November.

As I understand, gitlab's features make bug mails to a list unnecessary and
discouraged; the list would be for human traffic.


Name: debian-fonts
Short desc: Fonts and font-related tools in Debian
Long desc: Discussion about packaging and development of fonts, font
 editors, and font build tools.
Category: Developers
Subscription Policy: open
Post Policy: open
Web Archive: yes


It would probably be good to import the existing archives, although doing so
without manually weeding out the spam first is unthinkable.  I can do this
work myself, although for obvious reason I'm not expending the effort before
such an import is okayed.

The other two lists, pkg-fonts-bugs and pkg-fonts-commits, are redundant
with gitlab features, and thus shouldn't be migrated.


Meow!
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