I'm fine by the way, hope we'll have answer by mail quickly. The most
important for me is to receive mails so that I don't miss
conversations and that part is working well as far as I can see.

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> New status as of 15 May 2017:
>>
>> * Categories created, see https://discourse.xwiki.org/
>> * Still missing ability to reply by mail (waiting for Kevin on this). Since 
>> I have no idea when this can be implemented, I think we shouldn’t block on 
>> this to get started
>> * I’ve created a discourse user with an email of us...@xwiki.org so that we 
>> can continue archiving everything posted on discourse.
>>
>> In short we’re ready to start using discourse.xwiki.org.
>>
>> So what I propose now is that:
>>
>> 1) I document it on 
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/MailingLists. I’ll also rename 
>> the page to http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Discuss (with a 
>> redirect).
>
> Should also probably redirect
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Forum to
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Discuss.
>
>> 2) I send a mail to users & devs @xwiki.org to announce the new forum.
>> 3) After 1-2 days, I’ll configure the users @ xwiki.org mailing list to 
>> reject all posts with a message explaining the move to the forum.
>>
>> Ok with everyone?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>
>>> On 28 Apr 2017, at 15:43, 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.
>>>
>>> * 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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