Thread:Talk:Development process improvement/Communications recommendations/Mailing list renaming/reply

I disagree that "we have so many old conversations that we often reference". A link search for http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/ on mediawiki.org return many results, but almost all of them are links to release announcements. They appear on many pages only because they're included into "news" templates. They can hardly be considered useful reference materials (which should reside on the wiki anyway).

In any case, I had done a little bit of research about list renaming before writing these recommendations, and that's why I recommended very few of them. Renaming Mediawiki-api to Mediawiki-api-users and mediawiki-l to mediawiki-users is obviously optional (notice the "perhaps" and the question mark respectively in the table :). That said, renaming "mediawiki-cvs" to "mediawiki-commits" would make sense, and shouldn't be too much of an issue. It will teach us not to use tool-specific names in the future :) FYI there are about a hundred subscribers.

To be honest, I'm more interested in retiring or merging unused lists, and splitting lists that mix different topics.