On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:01:15 -0400 Stephen Smoogen <ssmoo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I am NOT a proponent of this proposal. I don't want to go to > Discourse. Web interfaces like that cause me cognitive pain and > grumpiness to use longer than a few minutes. As such I know my > involvement with Fedora will go down further. > > If it comes across that I am for this change, it is because I am > tired and frustrated. The mailman system has been running on inertia > since at least February 2018, when the last software updates to the > mailman software were done. Over the last 5 years, the system has > mostly run, but in the last year has increasingly had longer and > longer outages. My tiredness comes from spending most of my > Thanksgiving and Winter breaks trying to find reasons and then doing > whatever cave-man hacks I could to fix it without breaking mail > altogether. My frustration and anger comes from the fact that I spent > most of the last 5 years assuming that it was somebody else's problem > and they would take care of it so I could focus on keeping other > things running. I know almost nothing about mail list infrastructure. Are there other open source linux distributions using the latest mailman? Could their process be copied and put in as a drop in replacement for fedora with a little tweaking? How do they deal with the spam problem? I'm not asking you to do it, but you appear to be a domain expert, so you can probably answer these questions off the top of your head. Some more questions. What language is mailman written in? What are the major incompatibilities of the new version with the older version? Are there more modern alternatives that are easier to set up and maintain? Crazy ideas. Would it cost less resources to set up a private usenet server for messages than to continue maintaining the mailman application? Is it even possible? Could it be outsourced to one of the big usenet providers? I doubt it would be even a dent in their capacity since they maintain 10 years of binary usenet posts. Could such a usenet server be kept in sync with Discourse, and allow posts to the server to be propagated to Discourse? I'm thinking of some kind of automated web application that takes each post on the usenet server and logs in to Discourse and posts it to the appropriate place. A user would configure it with their credentials once, and forget it. Sort of the way youtube-downloader works, except opposite. In the other direction, there would be a web scraper that regularly scrapes posts on fedora discourse and reposts them to the usenet server. Again, the user enters their credentials once, and done. Ignore this if it seems too woo woo or irrelevant or resource intense. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
