On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 20:56, Luca Beltrame <lbeltr...@kde.org> wrote: > - As far as I remember, they *only* supported deployment with Docker. > This is is IMO a terrible and black-magic approach
Seems like a perfectly sensible and modern way to deploy. You can log into the running container fine and twiddle as needed. > - It uses (used to use?) PostgreSQL as database, for which Sysadmin > isn't really keen on using unless absolutely necessary Shrug, personal taste. > - The UX is not as best as it looks, hijacks stuff like the back button > on the browser and what not Shrug, personal taste. > - The "app" on mobile is a joke, basically a web view of the mobile page I'm told the app works fine web view or no, doesn't seem a reason to dislike an app. > > I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto > > Does Discourse have a mail interface to avoid breaking user workflows? > How should a migration be handled? Don't forget we'll lose distributed > archiving of the mailing lists as well (very useful). It certainly notifies by e-mail, I've not yet worked out how it treats incoming e-mail. It has import filters for mailman and maybe phpBB but also if we ever got to a point where we dropped the current systems entirely they can just be turned read only and continue to be used as archives. > Also, don't forget that "should", to quote a seminar I was at recently, > should become "I/we/they will". If no one is willing to put support > with the (aged! I'm not saying it's perfect) forum infrastructure why > do you think one would put up with the new? Of course it would need someone to do the work, but it would mean replacing two systems with one. Jonathan