Discussion forums not covered in CONTRIBUTING.md

[Chealer]

Affects: N/A

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This ticket is a follow-up to #27509. To prevent any misunderstanding of the topic of this report, CONTRIBUTING.md technically does cover discussion forums in its Ask questions section, but that section is obviously offtopic.

In terms of discussion forums about the development of Spring itself, CONTRIBUTING.md does not say a word. And unfortunately, the Community page does not come to the rescue.

As I wrote in the ticket mentioned above:

I tried searching for forums by myself and only found forum.springframework.org, which was shut down and redirected to a blog post about that shutdown, and a few on SourceForge. The Open Discussion forum on SourceForge is marked as deprecated, pointing to forum.springframework.org as a replacement. The only one which might remain relevant would be springframework-developer, except the last mail there was in February, and the last legitimate message goes back to February 2019.

If springframework-developer remains a proper forum for discussing Spring development, please mention that on at least one of the above documents. If not, please list the other options.

According to a comment by Brian Clozel:

The springframework-developer mailing list is not monitored by the Spring team.

...but I cannot say whether it should be mentioned or not.

[bclozel]

We don't think we should mention discussion forums in our CONTRIBUTING docs because we don't plan on investing there right now.