Shutting down the sounder mailing list

[Daniel Holbach]

We have regularly been made aware of recurring problems on this list.
The tone and atmosphere are unmatched in other Ubuntu mailing lists. At
one point, Mark reached out [1] to remind everyone how we want to
communicate with each other. Still debates kept getting out of hand and
were mostly wildly unrelated to Ubuntu. Alan reached out again [2] and
made clear that the list had long moved away from its initial focus and
welcoming atmosphere. No solutions for the problem were brought up in
the list discussion or in the Community Council meeting.

In the meeting on April 19th the CC decided to shut down the Sounder
mailing list. In essence, this is a decision to prune areas of the
project which are offtopic or ungoverned, on the basis that they
distract from our shared community focus on the goal of delivering free
software in the best possible state, on particular terms (free of
charge, cadence). While we appreciate that the Sounder list (and
possibly other, similar forums) provide a particular social release for
those who use them, we think there are better forums for each of the
varied topics discussed there. Some of those are inside the project,
most are elsewhere.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2009-December/013663.html
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2011-April/016351.html

Thanks for all the fun moments on the list, see you elsewhere,
 your Community Council