2 Jun
2017
2 Jun
'17
9:38 a.m.
Hi Denis,
On 2 Jun 2017, at 08:59, Denis Gervalle
<dgl(a)softec.lu> wrote:
Hi Vincent,
Last time I managed to follow the proposal to move to Discourse, the goal wasn’t to
completely drop the mailing lists and to just have a new tool that is well synchronized,
allowing usage of both together and seamlessly… Did I miss an important vote ?
You probably read the discussion a bit quickly because it’s never been the goal to have
both. That would be a pure nightmare to have both and I don’t even know how it could be
implemented. What we talked about was, only for search reasons, to try to have forum posts
sent to the list so that markmail can have forum posts. This is not working so well ATM, I
need to check it out, but IMO it’s not a huge issue. It’s always been a nice-to-have
feature only.
The other thing we discussed was that we would try to configure discourse to allow
replying by mail. I’m still trying to configure this with XWiki SAS infra but they’re very
slow to make any progress on this and it’s not a blocker for the user forum (could be for
the devs forum if we decide to move it too to discourse but that’s not the case ATM).
I am frightened that you are proposing this while I
don’t yet had the time to see the forum!
We’re not going to wait for all users to try the forum. This will just not happen ever.
We’ve tested discourse enough to know it’s good and usable. We need to use it fully now.
Don’t you fear to lose many subscribers ?
No I’m not worried at all. This is a support channel. Anyone needing free help will find
ways to move to the forum. It’s easy and documented in several places.
Last time I look at the forum, there was no account
synchronization with xwiki.org. Did that change ?
Nope. You need to either create an account on the forum or use you github account to sign
in.
Sorry if my questions look stupid, but the move was
not so clear to me. Regards,
Thanks
-Vincent
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Denis Gervalle
SOFTEC sa - CEO
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:14, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> 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.
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