On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > >> 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
For replies sure but for new topics ? > > 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). This is not really an issue. You just need to setup a regular mail account behind us...@xwiki.org instead of a mailing list, exactly like what Kevin is probably currently doing for whatever mail address you decided to use for Discourse replies. > > 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 > -- Thomas Mortagne
