Retire django-developers and django-users mailing list

[Thibaud Colas]

Following the forum thread (​Proposal: retiring django-users and django-developers mailing lists), we can now move ahead with updating the developer documentation to remove or contextualize references to the django-developers and django-users mailing list.

There is a lot of content that needs removing, but in some cases it might make sense to replace the references to those mailing lists with a link to the Django Forum, or specific forum categories. Also worth noting the django-announce and django-updates mailing list are staying as-is.

Removal tasks ¶

• [ ] remove 2x mailing lists from the ​How to release Django docs
• [ ] Remove django-users from the ​FAQ - How do I do X
• [ ] Remove ​Why hasn't my message appeared on *django-users*? from the FAQ: Getting help
• [ ] Remove ​You might notice we have a second mailing list paragraph from the FAQ: Getting help
• [ ] Remove the 4x subscription and posting email addresses from ​Mailing lists and Forum
• [ ] Remove the django-users mention on the ​Contributing to Django index.
• [ ] Remove 4x mentions of django-developers from the ​Organization of the Django Project docs
• [ ] Remove 3x django-developers mentions on ​Comitting code
• [ ] Remove 6x django-developers mentions on ​Triaging tickets
• [ ] Remove 4x django-developers mentions on ​Submitting contributions
• [ ] Remove 1x django-developers mention from ​Writing your first contribution for Django

Rewrite tasks ¶

• [ ] Rewrite the ​Mailing lists and Forum explanations for django-users and django-developers to explain the mailing lists still exist and contain valuable history
• [ ] Replace the 4x django-users and django-developers mentions on ​Reporting bugs and requesting features to instead point to the forum
• [ ] Replace the django-users and IRC links on the ​What to read next with a link to the ​Django Community page
• [ ] Replace the django-users mention on ​contrib apps index with a link to the Django forum

Do nothing ¶

• Keep the rst_epilog references in the Sphinx config for now
• Keep any references to the mailing lists in historical docs (for example old release notes)

[Sarah Boyce]

Thank you for leading this discussion
I think adding the forum and discord to the rst_epilog is also something we should consider

[Chaitanya Rahalkar]

PR: ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/18808

[Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@…>]

In 86493307:

Fixed #35908 -- Retired the django-developers and django-users mailing lists.

Co-authored-by: Chaitanya Rahalkar <chaitanyarahalkar@…>

[Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@…>]

In 463e87e:

[5.2.x] Fixed #35908 -- Retired the django-developers and django-users mailing lists.

Co-authored-by: Chaitanya Rahalkar <chaitanyarahalkar@…>

Backport of 86493307f97b9795a74227b6af2d59a267160847 from main.

[Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@…>]

In 481b8280:

[5.1.x] Fixed #35908 -- Retired the django-developers and django-users mailing lists.

Co-authored-by: Chaitanya Rahalkar <chaitanyarahalkar@…>

Backport of 86493307f97b9795a74227b6af2d59a267160847 from main.