Sounds good to me. As the person who pushed engagement team to move
over, I'm fully behind moving everything to discourse!
sri

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:03 PM Neil McGovern <n...@gnome.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Olav,
>
> On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +0000, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > it has been around half a year since GNOME started to host a
> > Discourse[0] instance, which was generally well received.
> >
> > Listadmin wise (I'm NOT the admin here!), mailman is not really nice
> > to
> > use. If something ends up in the moderation queue it'll take quite a
> > bit
> > of effort for a moderator to look at it.
> >
> > Discourse is free software (including the Javascript) and the
> > dependencies are also free software.
> >
> > You can sign up in various ways. First of all there's regular
> > email+password. It also allows single-sign on systems, like Google
> > and
> > Github, to authenticate yourself. Lastly (and preferred way) if you
> > have
> > a GNOME LDAP account already, you're strongly encouraged to use that
> > method of authentication.
> >
> > You can still use email to interact with Discourse, and a guide is
> > available[2]. The interaction is both ways (sending and receiving).
> > It's
> > even possible to make Discourse behave like an mailing list.
> >
> > For specific questions or feedback on Discourse, please post in the
> > appropriate category[3].
> >
> > Do people agree to move this to Discourse? Does anyone have
> > objections
> > or concerns? I didn't check with the current list admins btw.
> >
>
> As another data point, all GTK (and builder) discussions have moved to
> discourse, and I know the Docs teams are also willing to transition.
> GTK has seen much more activity on there than all GTK lists combined
> with mailman.
>
> In general, I would suggest that the foundation list moves over, unless
> there are actually any serious objections. Perhaps a discussion at
> GUADEC could also be had.
>
> If there's no objections, I'm happy to help manage the transition, with
> an aim of retiring this list by the end of October.
>
> Comments please!
>
> Neil
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