Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Make users list readonly?

I would really like to still be able to use 1 tool, i.e. currently the mail client, to read the mails for either devs or users. Sure, answering to users should be done on discourse, but I would not like to have to juggle yet another service.

Thanks, Eduard On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; wrote: > >> On 22 Jun 2017, at 14:35, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; wrote: >> >> >>> On 22 Jun 2017, at 14:09, Eduard Moraru &lt;enygma2002(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>> Guys, I thought we were going to make the users list read-only, not > disable >>> it completely. This is now what was discussed, AFAIK. >> >> Where did you see that? At least that’s not my proposal. My proposal is > to make it read only. >> >>> Right now, I haven't received a mail on the users list since 12th of > June. >> >> I haven’t made it readonly yet so I don’t know if it’s normal or not. > > FTR just noticed 2 users have contacted me telling me they cannot post to > the user list anymore. So someone must have changed something on the user > list, but it’s not me :) > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >>> AFAIR, a proposed flow was to receive mails of the discussions and, if > you >>> want to reply, you'd follow the reply link in the mail an open the >>> discourse browser window. >>> >>> So, only discourse could be able to publish to the list, all other list >>> users would get rejected. >> >> The proposal was: >> * Make the list readonly except for a given discourse user who’d have > user(a)xwiki.org as its email so that we can still archive discussions done > with discourse on markmail, nabble, etc. >> >> However: >> * I have configured a user having user(a)xwiki.org as its email and in > “mailing list mode” but after it sends its first mail, the “mailing list > mode” is automatically disabled and I don’t know why. >> >> Conclusion so far: >> * We need to make the list readonly. I’ll do this next week when I find > some time. >> * I don’t know how to fix the issue listed above >> * In any case I don’t think it’s that important that we don’t archive > discourse discussions on markmail so I’m fine with dropping this part. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Eduard >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; > wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> On 2 Jun 2017, at 19:50, Marius Dumitru Florea < >>>> mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:14 AM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi devs, >>>>>> >>>>>> Now that our forum is working well I’d like to propose to make the > users >>>>>> list readonly and move all users to the forum. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's a small thing but very annoying: is there a way to reply in-line? >>>> When >>>>> the post you want to reply to is long it's pretty hard to keep > context if >>>>> you can't reply in-line. The alternative is to copy and quote the part >>>> that >>>>> you are referring to, but it's not that nice. >>>> >>>> Yes it’s possible and very easy to do: simply select the text you wish > to >>>> reply to and you’ll see the option to reply to it :) >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Marius >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> So the plan I’m proposing is: >>>>>> * On Monday, make the users list readonly >>>>>> * Send a last message on it, inviting users to move to the forum >>>>>> >>>>>> Note that we’ve already been putting a notice to all messages sent on >>>> the >>>>>> users lists inviting users to move to the forum and this has been >>>> running >>>>>> for 2 weeks already. >>>>>> >>>>>> My feeling is that we need to finalize the move now and prevent too > much >>>>>> scattering of user posts both on the users list and on the forum and >>>> have >>>>>> them all on the forum ASAP. >>>>>> >>>>>> WDYT? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> -Vincent >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >> > >