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 > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>> > >>> > > > >