Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

[Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 8:39 AM Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:25 AM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 8:13 AM Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> That's why the general trend is *away* from email.
>
> The Foreman community recently switched away from mailing lists in this way,
> and https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html
> is really interesting and helpful read on the topic for those who might have
> some ... trepidation.
>
> I'm not sayin' we are ready to shut this list down, but it's honestly worth

> considering if a different approach will be more effective.

Before the daggers come out.... please take some time to checkout Fedora Discourse

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/  and read the Foreman community link above.

As I had previously mentioned, Discourse allows for RSS feeds and email notifications.  It also has a mailing list mode.

RSS is going away. And part of that, Mozilla is removing built-in RSS support in Firefox 64.

Well, for the moment, Discourse supports it (as well as Fedora updates) - and FWIW I've never used RSS Support in Fx.  I use Tiny Tiny RSS and Inoreader and have yet to have a problem adding a feed from a site.  There are also many many other clients available - too many to list here.

If it goes away however, such is life - and I'll use the next best thing. 

But RSS really isn't the point of this thread.  My point is that Fedora should move to Discourse.  It's a much better solution for

discussion.  We should publish a timeline and just do it. 

What does migration look like? Existing mail archive is imported into Discourse, or is it a hard break? If hard break, what's the possibility of a pseudo import, where Discourse searches include results from the mail archive? Can the existing subscriptions be transferred to Discourse? And could those transfers default to making list mode?

Infrastructure team would do this work? What's their position, available resources, and timeframe?

Chris Murphy

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