Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

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On 27 August 2019 14:23:48 CEST, "Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote:
>I read all the comments and my response is this...
>First of all, there is no limit to the amount of emails that discourse
>will
>send out.  That is a site parameter, and whomever supports it for
>Fedora
>needs to change it:
>
>https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-limits-for-outgoing-mails-per-user/41458
>
>If the requirement is that discourse completely replicate 100% the
>functionality of mailing lists, that is unreasonable and isn't going to
>happen.  As I mentioned earlier there are several groups working on
>this or
>have done migration from mailing lists to discourse:
>
>https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/lets-try-to-emulate-a-mailing-list/1003
>https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-mailing-lists-majordomo-or-otherwise/65769
>
>You can find more examples with a web search.
>
>A key comment was:  "Our site is still quite busy, although some people
>are
>still grumbling about the change, 8 months later. The die-hard email
>users
>are still able to participate, which came as a bit of a pleasant shock
>to
>them. I think they were fully expecting that once we moved to a modern
>platform, they’d be forced to use a web interface."
>
>Personally, I don't like my mailbox filled up with mailing list
>postings.
>I prefer to uses the discourse rss interface to scan for topics and
>then go
>directly to it to respond.  Instead of writing a "me too" email, I can
>simply click a like button to show I'm in agreement.  It's easier to
>see
>the full context of a thread.  With the current situation I have to go
>scan
>the archives. I like to use the mobile app to read and reply from my
>phone.  For every item mentioned about discourse doesn't do A, B, C
>with
>mailing lists I can counter with an item that email lists cannot do. 
>The
>fact is that for the vast majority of people, the discourse mailing
>list
>functionality is good enough - and as time goes on it continues to
>improve
>- but again, it's not reasonable to expect or demand 100%.  IMO the
>pros
>outweigh the cons.
>
>The top of this email thread is:  No longer supporting mailing lists
>and my understanding is that Fedora is searching for people to take
>over
>support.  Seems to me that is a good time to consider switching to
>discourse.  From reading experiences of people who did the migration,
>it's
>easier to support.

But the way to go about a change isn't to start the change and see what happens. The proper way is to look at the alternatives at hand and what the implications of the respective solutions are.
That means a wee bit more analysis than linking to a marketing post by one of the providers of solutions.

I understand that you like discourse, you have made that clear.
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