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

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 29/05/26 12:50, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 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.

LGTM, thanks for working on this.

> 
> 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.
>