Shutting down the distutils-sig mailing list has been suggested since December 2020, notably by Pradyun Gedam who also raised the issue again in May 2021. However, everyone seems nervous about making the final decision. Well, I'm still the moderator of the list, so I'm happy to make that call: let's shut the list down for 2021! Steps I'll take: * Edit the list's one-line description to "Former list for Python packaging ecosystem discussion. Now archived." * Edit the list's long description to be in the past tense, and to point people at the right category on discuss.python.org. * Change the default action for the list for members and non-members to 'Reject (with notification)'. * Clear the list of members by unsubscribing everyone. * Clear the email addresses listed in the 'accept these nonmembers' field. * Submit a PR for the Python docs to remove 'distutils-sig@python.org' as author of a few sections. Are there other PyPA repos that might reference the list? I'll aim to do all of these tomorrow, on the last day of year. --amk