Re: NonGNU ELPA work

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  stefan@marxist.se,  philipk@posteo.net,  
> bozhidar@batsov.dev,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:08:24 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Most of the cost and the inconvenience of keeping a mailing list is
> > not visible to people around here, because I silently manage the Emacs
> > mailing lists behind the scenes.  But those costs and inconveniences
> > are real nonetheless, believe me, and take me some real time and
> > effort.
> 
> The excellent listhelper system is (supposed to be) the default for all
> new gnu.org mailing lists created through the Savannah interface.
> I find it reduces the administrative cost of a mailing list to zero.
> (Of course, someone else is still doing work, but less, and more efficiently.)
> If any of the Emacs lists are not using it, I encourage you to
> switch them. (It manages the input to the bug list, but in a different
> way, by moderating debbugs input.)

We use listhelper, of course, on all our mailing lists.  Still, that
leaves some non-trivial amount of work, almost every day.