> On 15 May 2017, at 15:44, 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).
Done. I’ve also redirected http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Forum to https://discourse.xwiki.org. Note: I’ve asked xwiki sas infra to create https://forum.xwiki.org. > 2) I send a mail to users & devs @xwiki.org to announce the new forum. Doing in a few minutes. > 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? Keep the feedback coming! :) Thanks -Vincent > > 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 >>> >> >
