Important Announcement: All NGINX mailman mailing lists are retiring on September 30

[Sébastien Rebecchi]

It was really convenient to receive release announcements by mail. Sad :(

Le ven. 26 sept. 2025 à 14:02, Sergey Budnevich <sb at nginx.com> a écrit :

>
>
> > On 25 Sep 2025, at 22:50, Ralph Seichter <ralph at ml.seichter.de> wrote:
> >
> > * Sergey Budnevich:
> >
> >> All NGINX mailman mailing lists are retiring on September 30, as the
> >> NGINX development process has moved to GitHub.
> >
> > Not only does this come at very short notice, it is also regrettable, in
> > my opinion.
>
> Sorry for the short notice, but a year ago my colleague wrote that we plan
> to shut down the mailing lists after December 31, 2024, and we actually
> ran them nine months longer:
> https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2024-September/R7KBUUNTG3B2QAAMPS6M7YDOSVCMOZD7.html
>
> The main reason for decommissioning is the lack of activity in the mailing
> list — there are months with announcement emails only.
>
> GitHub is not a replacement for a mailing list as a place for questions -
> it is
> mainly for information about new releases, i.e., an announcements
> replacement.
>
> community.nginx.org is intended as the mailing list replacement, as Ian
> correctly mentioned. Also it is possible to use RSS feeds for both GitHub
> and the forum.
>
> >
> > GitHub may be a valid choice for your development process, but as a
> > means of communicating with end users seeking support, mailing lists are
> > far better suited. User-to-user communication is also better handled
> > using mailing lists. Also, I find using proper MUAs is much more
> > efficient than GitHub's web browser UI, and they even work in a TTY
> > environment with low bandwidth.
> >
> > Can you not keep the NGINX user mailing list active? That would not
> > interfere with your developer processes on GitHub.
> >
> > -Ralph
> > _______________________________________________
> > nginx mailing list
> > nginx at nginx.org
> > https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
> _______________________________________________
> nginx mailing list
> nginx at nginx.org
> https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/attachments/20250926/e2aea459/attachment.htm>