On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:23:48 AM MST Gerald B. Cox 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-otherw > ise/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. If you would like, I could assist you in setting up your email client, and in filtering your mailing lists into folders. You can also access your email on your phone, if you wish to do so. Other than things like emoji responses, I can tell you how to do just about anything that you can on Discourse using Email. It's not that one is modern and the other is not. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
