Hi Joe, Thanks for your feedback. https://discuss.scientific-python.org is a community owned site, which is currently maintained by Stéfan van der Walt and me. It is running discourse, which is released under GPL: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
Python uses discourse as well:https://discuss.python.org/ Best regards, Jarrod On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 10:23 AM Joe Harrington <j...@physics.ucf.edu> wrote: > > My main/only concern is switching costs / lock-in to proprietary services for > open-source projects. If the service you are looking at "owns" the content > in some sense, such that you have to be a member, pay, potentially pay in the > future, or depend on their continued existence for access to content, then > I'd raise an objection as someone who was once heavily involved and who > continues to monitor development. > > If there's something like a mailing list archive in a format that can be > monitored in real time and that would survive the termination of the > company/organization hosting it, then it's fine. Something like Slack or > Teams is a non-starter because the content can't be mass-downloaded and > hosted outside the service, so the service could suddenly impose fees or > terminate business if bought by a competitor, and we'd lose everything. > There are frequent references in the discussions to past discussions and > decisions. I would not want us to generate a bunch of history and then loose > access to it. > > I'm not familiar with Discuss, and perhaps not everyone is. Could you > elaborate a bit about these concerns? > > Thanks, > > --jh-- > Joe Harrington > Office of Research, Department of Physics, and Florida Space Institute > University of Central Florida > Founder of the NumPy/SciPy Documentation Project > > On 4/3/24 10:04, Melissa Mendonça wrote: > > Hi all! > > We are proposing to move the development discussions from > scipy-dev@python.org to > https://discuss.scientific-python.org/c/contributor/scipy > > The proposal is as follows: > - We start using Discourse as a replacement to scipy-dev@python.org > - We don't move the mailing list archive and history. That will all be frozen > at the current location > (https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/scipy-dev.python.org/). While it is > possible to migrate the history to Discourse, this makes the transition A LOT > more complicated including potentially exposing private email addresses which > is something we probably don't want to do. > - Posters will have the ability to post on the website forum or through > email. I am personally still getting used to the Discourse interface, but it > seems it is possible to interact with the forum through email only if that is > preferred, so hopefully those who would like to keep the email workflow would > not have to adapt too much. This message was posted through email, for > example: https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/this-is-a-test-message/1117 > > Note that there are two forums for SciPy in the Scientific Python discourse: > - https://discuss.scientific-python.org/c/contributor/scipy (for developer > discussions) > - https://discuss.scientific-python.org/c/user/scipy (for user discussions) > > There is no expectation that maintainers would monitor the user forum. > > I hope this is clear - let me know if you need more information. The forum is > already open so anyone can post there. Let me know your thoughts. > > Thank you Stéfan van der Walt for the help setting this up and Pamphile Roy > for the previous work on setting up the forum! > > - Melissa > > _______________________________________________ > SciPy-Dev mailing list -- scipy-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to scipy-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/scipy-dev.python.org/ > Member address: j...@physics.ucf.edu > > _______________________________________________ > SciPy-Dev mailing list -- scipy-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to scipy-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/scipy-dev.python.org/ > Member address: jarrod.mill...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ SciPy-Dev mailing list -- scipy-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to scipy-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/scipy-dev.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
