[fedora-virt] Do we need the Fedora 'virt' mailing list?

[Cole Robinson]

On 09/23/2015 01:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:08:57AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 09/16/2015 08:20 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:45:28PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Crickets ... https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/
>>>>
>>>> The virt list has long been in an odd place.  Fedora has best in class
>>>> virt support, because so many virt developers use it.  It also follows
>>>> upstream very closely, with upstream packages like libvirt and qemu
>>>> going straight into Rawhide without any significant patching.
>>>>
>>>> So there isn't really much need for a Fedora+virt-specific list, since
>>>> almost any question should go upstream to one of the following lists:
>>>>
>>>>  - https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
>>>>  - https://libvirt.org/contact.html#email
>>>>  - http://wiki.qemu.org/MailingLists
>>>>  - https://libosinfo.org/communicate/
>>>>  - https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
>>>>
>>>> Or as a last resort if it really is a rare virt integration issue that
>>>> only affects to Fedora, then:
>>>>
>>>>  - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>  - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>>>>
>>>> Can we kill the virt list?
>>>
>>> At this point in time, I'd say yes.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah I've thought similar for a long while too. So I'm for it. I'll leave a
>> bit more time for discussion but if nothing changes I'll close the list next week.
> 
> One week - do you want to close the list or should I?  Dan suggested a
> method to use here:
> 

It's on my list but I might not get to it today, so go for it

> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2015-September/004295.html
> 
> I was also interested in whether any web pages reference this list.  I
> think just these ones:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization#News
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository#Contact
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization/News
> 

I don't think it's in any man pages or anything, so that looks right to me

Thanks,
Cole