Thomas Harding <t...@thomas-harding.name> writes: > Le 5 août 2017 21:21:18 GMT+02:00, John Sullivan <jo...@fsf.org> a écrit : >> Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> writes: >> >> > I've seen various communities having debates about whether to adopt >> > Discourse of similar forum software instead of a mailing list. >> > >> > Has anybody already prepared any objective wiki pages or blogs >> comparing >> > mailing lists to forums and itemising each of the issues to be >> considered? >> > >> > Rather than repeating the same discussions in many places, it would >> be >> > useful to link to something that covers it comprehensively. >> > >> > With Discourse in particular, each time it comes up somebody >> comments >> > that it has a "Mailing list mode" option in the settings and >> suggesting >> > it is a drop-in replacement for a mailing list. In practice, I've >> > observed that the mailing list mode is better than what other forums >> > offer but I feel it is somewhere between alpha and beta quality when >> > compared to established mailing list software. If the developers >> really >> > wanted to they could make it a full replacement for mailing lists >> but >> > that doesn't appear to be a priority for them. >> >> I'm not aware of any, but I think that's a good idea, since I've seen >> the same conversation many times too. The libreplanet.org wiki could >> be >> a good place for it? >> >> -john > > Nothing will prevent repeating constantly same discussions. > > Just try a convenient limitative list of keywords to find a topic on > an internet search engine and result is almost always void or, at > option, fills numerous pages with non-significant matches. >
Sure, I didn't mean to try and have that as a goal. The goal is to use the conversation to build a more permanent kind of resource that people can draw from and refer to in future related conversations and decisions. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <http://my.fsf.org/join>. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss