I suspect julia-opt will wait and see how the julia-users transition goes. julia-opt has much lower volume than julia-users.
On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 9:12:11 AM UTC-5, Johan Sigfrids wrote: > > What about other lists like julia-stats and julia-opt? Would they also > move to Discourse or be left behind? > > On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 4:05:24 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> It seems like we can import the email list from julia-users and >> julia-dev, and you can reply on Discourse by email, so people who interact >> with groups via email won't necessarily even notice much difference. For >> people who interact via the web interface, I think that once the Discourse >> setup is ready and populated with past discussions, we will disable posting >> to groups and thereby cut over to the new system. It will be briefly >> disruptive but shouldn't be too bad. >> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Tom Breloff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to auto-forward new posts from google to discourse? What >>> about an automated warning to direct users to the new site? >>> >>> +1 for moving >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, I think we should give this a shot. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Viral Shah <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yeah, we should qualify. The next step would be to have a someone >>>>> (Jonathan Malmud?) come up with a migrating plan, and we should also >>>>> formally appoint a group of list admins to carry out the day to day >>>>> activities, enforce community standards, etc. >>>>> >>>>> -viral >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > On 09-Mar-2016, at 4:31 PM, Hans-Peter <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > There is a new discourse blog post were Discourse offers free >>>>> hosting for 'community friendly Github projects'. I think Julia would >>>>> qualify and this would solve the question about self-hosting and its >>>>> associated work. >>>>> > >>>>> > On the other hand I don't recall what is the current situation about >>>>> some people strongly preferring traditional maillists and Discourse' >>>>> support thereof. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>
