28 Apr
2017
28 Apr
'17
3:58 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
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Thomas Mortagne
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
you
get an email per post on the forum or post on the category.
Not sure the best idea is to have 2 Discourses, but we can surely create a
special category for users. Mailinglist doesn't allow categorization, so we
don't need a 1-1 translation from mailinglist to discourse.
Thanks,
Caty
> On 28 Apr 2017, at 15:49, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
>> Status
>> ======
>>
>> So I’ve progressed in this with Kevin (who’s an infra admin at XWiki
SAS).
>>
>> We now have an instance ready.
>>
>> What’s left to do:
>>
>> * Configure reply by email. I’m currently trying to do that with
Kevin.
The principle is that you receive mail from discourse and we set in
discourse a reply-to email address so that when you reply to the mail, it
goes to a mail inbox somewhere (some gmail account for example). Then
discourse is configured to check (using POP3, they don’t seem to support
IMAP ATM) that inbox and to process mails found in it and update the
topics. Note that even if we don’t configure this, users can still receive
emails for all posts but they will just need to click on the link to go the
webpage and answer. It’s not the end of the world either.
Does it also support starting new discussion by mail or only reply ?
It seems so:
" You can start topics, reply to topics, have a mailing list mode where
Longer term we plan to add some "secret commands" that allow you to like
a post or flag a post via email.
Overall mailing list parity is pretty high here and we support a bunch
of stuff
mailing lists do not.”
In that case another idea for the migration would be to make Discourse
monitor users(a)xwiki.org instead of making it readonly.
Thanks
-Vincent
>
>> * Decide on the migration path. See below
>>
>> * Decide if we migrate only users or also devs. FTM I suggest that we
do
only users and see how it goes and if we’re happy we can decide to move
devs data too.
>>
>> Migration Path
>> ============
>>
>> I propose the following:
>>
>> * On a given date that we advertise on the users list, we configure
this
list to be readonly and not allow more posts. We invite users to
register on our discourse instance and use that.
>> * We don’t import our archives since it’s
complex (
https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-import-mbox-mailing-list-files/51233)
and there’s not a perfect mapping. We can always do that in the future if
someone really wants to work on that.
>> * We create a markmail user in our
discourse instance and configure it
to receive all posts. We set its email address
to be users(a)xwiki.org and
we configure the users list to accept mail from our discourse instance.
This allows to keep having a place where we can search in all places by
using markmail. Incidentally this also means that nabble and gmane will
continue to archive our mails which is nice.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>
>>> On 24 Feb 2017, at 12:18, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> I’m proposing to vote for moving away from our users and devs mailing
list and instead to use the Discourse open source tool:
>>>
>>> * Home page: http://www.discourse.org/
>>> * License: GPL v2
>>> * FAQ: http://www.discourse.org/faq/
>>> * Awesome feature list: http://www.discourse.org/about/
>>>
>>> What is especially interesting for us:
>>> * It works with mailing lists (you can receive mails and send mails
to
the forum).
>>> * Works as a forum. BTW if you want
to see a real life instance,
check the gradle instance at
https://discuss.gradle.org/
>>>
>>> Nice things:
>>> * Works on mobile
>>> * Comprehensive API (would allow us to integrate it with xwiki.org)
>>> * Badges/user metrics
>>>
>>> So here’s my +1 to try it out and ask XWiki SAS if they could host an
instance.
>
> WDYT? Do you see any negative point (I don’t ATM)? :)
>
> Please cast your votes!
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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Thomas Mortagne