On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 5:06 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:11 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:49:32PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > It has been a pretty difficult for me to properly filter for the > > > OpenMandriva and Snapcraft forums (which replaced MLs with Discourse). > > > > We can customize the subject format in a way that might help. See > > https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-subject-format-for-standard-emails/20801 > > It'd be nice if there were further X- headers for more filtering rather than > > just parsing the subject. > > > > Other than the filtering issue, what's your impression of the switch for > > OpenMandriva? Did they just do it for support forums, or for devel as well? > > > > Initially it was the support forums. The rest came when we lost access > to the mail list system and it went down. We've transitioned over to > Discourse, and now we don't discuss much there anymore. > > It has forced us to more aggressively hold conversations on IRC, > because Discourse was far too painful. There are some developer > feedback threads on the OpenMandriva Discourse, but it was largely a > failure. > > It did work out reasonably well for user support, but that's because > historically there were both support forums and mail lists for user > support. Mageia does the same thing, though they run a phpBB forum > instead of Discourse. For OpenMandriva, we just closed the user list > and migrated it to Discourse. > > However, I think if we had HyperKitty back then (it was brand new > then), we probably wouldn't have stood up Discourse. Most people > preferred the mailing list and that feeling remained after the > transition. > Sorry for the tiny bit of necromancy, but I wanted to give a small update about this. OpenMandriva has decided to deploy a mailing list system again, and we're splitting development discussions back out to a traditional mailing list system. For now, it's a basic mailing list system, but Mailman 3 with HyperKitty is on the table for the future. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
