On Wednesday, 8 Aug 2018 8:40 AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > The new "forum" feature of Fossil is now live on the self-hosting website: > > https://fossil-scm.org/forum > > The forum feature is intended as a replacement for mailing lists like > this one. Though still very "beta", I believe in eating ones own > dogfood, and hence I am cutting over to the forum for Fossil itself. > > There is a "subscribe" option on the link above where you can sign up > for email notifications to new forum posts. The enhance email > notification should work just like a mailing list, with individual > emails for each forum post containing complete post content and > correct In-Reply-To headers. The only major difference between the > forum and this list is that you must go to the forum website to post > new content. New submissions via email are disallowed as an anti-spam > measure. > > The Fossil homepage now has a link to the forum instead of a link to > mailing list sign-up. > > Please discontinue use of this mailing list except as an emergency > back-up to the forum in case the forum stops working. If forum is not > working, you can also send email directly to me. > > After we have shaken out the forum feature a little further, I will > shut down this legacy mailing list.
I know I'm far too late to roll back a _fait accompli_, but I am disappointed that now I shall have to use a (expletive deleted) web forum to post comments. Please don't let this happen to the SQLite mail list also. (FYI, I have been using Gmane to read and post to both the Fossil and SQLite mailing lists.) -- Will _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
