On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > >> On 28 Apr 2017, at 15:49, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: >>> Status >>> ====== >>> >>> 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 ? > > 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
In that case another idea for the migration would be to make Discourse monitor us...@xwiki.org instead of making it readonly. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >>> * 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 us...@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 >>> >>> >>>> On 24 Feb 2017, at 12:18, Vincent Massol <vinc...@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 >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne > -- Thomas Mortagne
