[GMOD-devel] All GMOD mail lists should be migrated from sourceforge

[Chris M. <cjm...@lb...>]

I think it's time to ditch sourceforge altogether.

Of course, we ditched them some time ago as a hosted VCS and ticket 
system, moving to github, but we left the mail lists in place. Now it's 
time to move these too:

  - Recently I got an email from sourceforge asking me to confirm I 
wanted to remain on all sf mailing lists (non-confirmation resulting in 
automatic unsubscription within the month). It looked a bit phishy and I 
suspect many people will either not click or will not see the email, and 
will silently drop off the lists.
  - it is now no longer possible for list admins to manage members!
  - more spam seems to have been getting through

Unless anyone has a better suggestion, it seems like migrating to google 
groups is the best solution. This is what we're doing with the OBO 
lists: https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io/issues/435

This may be a good time to do some spring cleaning, consolidate some 
groups, formally abandon some others. And perhaps we can breathe some 
life into some existing ones? gmod-architecture seems to get no love - 
yet this is at a time when the model organism databases are 
consolidating their architecture and community discussions would be most 
welcome!

Here is the list of lists on SF:

![](cid:0EE...@lb... "PastedImage.png")

A lot of these are either dead or were never really alive

A curated list of GMOD lists:
http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Mailing_Lists