On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 7:21 PM David Davis <davidda...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> One of the main reasons we wanted to move off mailing lists is that signing 
> up is inconvenient for users that may just want to ask a single question. But 
> I agree that Github Discussions is not so great if users want to periodically 
> monitor news and discussions for a project like Pulp. I wonder perhaps if 
> Discourse[0] would be a better fit (see Foreman's use of discourse as an 
> example[1]). It provides a mailing list mode that users can enable if they 
> want to interact solely via email. And also, it also offers more granular 
> control of notifications and auth with services like Github.
>

The Fedora mailing list system (HyperKitty) actually manages to strike
a good balance here. You can sign in with OIDC/Social Login with
Fedora, Google, etc. and post to a list and only be subscribed to that
thread. Or you can subscribe to the whole list and do things like we
do now.

> One of the main concerns we've had around using Discourse is hosting it 
> ourselves but it does look like Discourse provides a free plan for open 
> source projects[2]. It has some limitations (not sure if they'd be an issue 
> for us?) but I've submitted an application to see if we qualify. I should 
> hear back in a couple days.
>

I suspect not, but it'd be an interesting surprise if we qualified.



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