28 Apr
2017
28 Apr
'17
3:53 p.m.
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:
It seems so:
" You can start topics, reply to topics, have a mailing list mode where you get an
email per post on the forum or post on the category.
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.”
From https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-new-topic-via-email/12477/6
Thanks
-Vincent
Status
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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 ? * 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
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Thomas Mortagne 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