Re: Proposal: Move Council Discuss List to Discourse

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 5:03 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

Is HyperKitty still under development upstream?
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