The Linux Foundation has closed the historic Bitcoin Mailing List, prompting Bitcoin Core developers to move it to Google Groups for continued support.
Transition of Bitcoin Mailing List
Late last year, the foundation stopped maintaining the mailing list, and now the Bitcoin Core development team has moved it to Google Groups, where it will be hosted on Google infrastructure.
Significance of Mailing List
Most of the important discussions, debates, and decisions made by developers on technical issues in more than ten consecutive years were hosted by the Bitcoin Mailing List. Conceived back in the year 2008, it played a very important role in coordinating the updates of Bitcoin Core, which underpins all the Bitcoin transactions around the world.
Changes in Developer Communications
Developer Bryan Bishop has uploaded the Bitcoin Mailing List's historical records, including communications from earlier record-keeping platforms like SourceForge.net and OSUOSL, to the new Google Group. Although a great chunk of Bitcoin's history has been preserved, some archived pages remain inaccessible. Users can seek older archives via the Wayback Machine on Archive.org.
The move marks the end of an era as communications around Bitcoin turn to a wider variety of platforms.
