The issues you bring up are generic Apache issues or mail client issues. I think that if you want to change the traditional set up, you should check with ... infra? to see if nuking mailing lists is acceptable.
FWIW, you can see threaded discussions just fine in Apache's Pony mail web UI. Gmail behaves differently based on the platform. Gary On Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 7:24 AM Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gary, > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 at 12:34, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think that to "deactivate" the mailing lists you refer to would be very > > bad and might not even be allowed by Apache. > > > > You cannot/shouldn't force people to create a GitHub (Microsoft) account > > just to talk to us. > > Yes, that is an unfortunate limitation of GH Discussions. > > On the other hand our mailing lists have other limitations: > > * It is not possible to subscribe to a single discussion thread. So > you can either send your question without subscribing and hope that > all participants will Cc you (unlikely), follow the discussion on > `lists.apache.org` (hard to answer without an Apache account) or > subscribe to the list and receive emails for all the other > discussions. > * It is not easy to see all the messages of a thread. Hoping that all > participants of a discussion will set the correct > `In-Reply-To/References` headers is not realistic. > > If we are looking for an Apache-hosted replacement for mailing lists, > Apache Answer seems pretty nice. We would just need INFRA to set up a > service. > > Piotr >
