Re: Moving from mailing lists to Discourse

[Niels De Graef <nielsdegraef gmail com>]

Hi all,

I'm very much in favor! Being able to still use e-mail while also
having a convenient and pretty-looking interface is something I look
*really* forward to.

My only question is: what happens to the old archives? Do we keep them
online as-is, or is there a plan to also migrate them? The former
means of course less effort, but the latter would keep everything
unified in one UI for example.
I'm fine with whatever you choose :-)

Thanks in any case for taking this up, Emmanuele!

Cheers,
nielsdg

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 3:42 PM Emmanuele Bassi via gtk-devel-list
<gtk-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> More information on Discourse:
>
>   - About: https://www.discourse.org/about
>   - Features: https://www.discourse.org/features
>
> Discourse is a forum software that has multiple ways to access it: web, native apps, and email. It's not a 
> mailing list software with a web frontend.
>
> The interesting (to me) parts are:
>
>  - 2FA instead of Mailman's plaintext password
>  - real moderation tools, that can scale with the community and encourage civility and code of conduct 
> compliant behaviour
>  - anti-spam measures
>  - open source software (kind of a pre-requisite)
>  - good UI for reading and replying to topics
>
> The Fedora (Silverblue) and Ubuntu communities already use Discourse, for instance; the SDL community also 
> does.
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 12:46, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > [Cross-posted to various relevant mailing lists; please, reply to gtk-devel-list]
> >
> > As part of an attempt at making GTK more friendly to newcomers, I and other core developers were thinking 
> > of moving the mailing lists from the current mailman installation to Discourse:
> >
> >   https://discourse.org/
> >
> > Possibly still hosted on GNOME infrastructure, depending on the requirements for our sysadmins.
> >
> > The GTK project would have various sub-topics, mostly around development with and of GTK. Having a better 
> > archive search, a better moderation system, and a decent web UI are the major selling points for switching 
> > to Discourse. The fact that the project is also open source is neatly aligned with our values.
> >
> > Are there any objections? Did somebody already try out Discourse and has opinions about it that they want 
> > to share with the community?
> >
> > Ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
> > --
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>
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