[RFC] Closing libc-locales and glibc-bugs-regex mailing lists at the end of June 2026.

[Carlos O'Donell]

On May 22nd, I posted an RFC to discuss the currently used mailing lists for
the project:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/932cc126-4a9a-4507-9c26-2c13524100d0@redhat.com/

As part of that discussion it was identified that developers saw value in
having libc-stable a distinct mailing list from libc-alpha. This split allows
developers to focus on stable branches versus active development.

Overall feedback from Collin, DJ, and Joseph was that libc-stable made sense
to keep (not the name per se, but the usage of the list).

The lists that I plan to close are as follows:

  * libc-locales: Closed and recommend using libc-alpha.
  * glibc-bugs-regex: Closed and recommend using libc-alpha.

I plan to work to close these lists at the end of June 2026 unless someone
has some opinions about the value of the lists.

I need go through the following sources to adjust reference to these lists
if they exist:

  * Sources for GNU Project libc page.
  * Sources for the GNU C Library web page on Sourceware.
  * Auto-assignment from Bugzilla for glibc components.
  * GNU C Library manual references.

I will do that cleanup at the end of June  before any lists are closed and
archived with the content continuing to be made available for public
reference.

Please feel free to follow up here if you have any questions.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.