On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:48:13 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:16:34AM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > > Regarding the mailling list, many projects (among GNOME) have or will > > adopt https://www.discourse.org/. It has a per-user mailling list mode > > but it can not bridge mailman. My guess is that a discourse instance > > only for GNU Guile and Guix would be overkill, so maybe GNU might > > consider using that software? > > I only know that subscribing to GNOME Discourse required Javascript > and its mail headers are less pretty compared to mailman. > > I would prefer eventually having a forum/bulletin board-like Web > interface to mailing lists in Guile and until then stick to pure > mailing lists.
That's pretty much what discourse is - an attractive web interface to something like mailing lists, with the option to use a mail client interface as well as the web interface if you want. To be clear I am definitely not pushing for this kind of change (I think I must be quite old-fashioned because it seems to me that traditional mailing lists work fine), nor am I particularly against it. I am not sure what it is that caused gnome to move from mailman to discourse, but I suspect it was to get the more up-to-date feel of a web interface. I notice also that the ocaml "mailing list" also uses discourse, should anyone want to ask them what they get out of it.
