> On 28 Apr 2017, at 15:55, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote: > > 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.
I thought about this but AFAIU this wouldn’t work. The email address used to reply to posts is of the form: <prefix>+<topickey>@<domain name> For example: discourse-replies+xx...@xwiki.org So I don’t think it would work to POP us...@xwiki.org (and we don’t have a POP-able inbox for users mail either AFAIK). Thanks -Vincent > >> >> 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
