Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move from our mailing lists and use Discourse instead

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. * 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