On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:55 PM, 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. > Not sure the best idea is to have 2 Discourses, but we can surely create a special category for users. Mailinglist doesn't allow categorization, so we don't need a 1-1 translation from mailinglist to discourse. Thanks, Caty > > > > > 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 >
