Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kevin Fenzi writes: Thanks for the conversation and a lot of useful information. I think it's mostly moved to "users", which is a channel which I think is more suited to forum style. So I'll go back to lurking, after one comment. > Yep. Perhaps we could (re)direct people to file issues with u

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 19/10/18 07:03 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:45 AM Neal Gompa wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Again, I believe some are trying to do an apples to apples comparison with Discourse and mailing list technologies. Discourse was build fro

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-23 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 06:33:56PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 10/21/18 6:12 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Kevin Fenzi writes: > > > > > Huh. The only person I know of from Fedora at least that was > > > working on it was abompard. While he's working on other things now, > > > as far as

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 15:05, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > I'm not able to parse this. This very thread is more information that > > may get us to move it up in priority. Can you rephrase? > > I don't know what "Fedora management" values, or what is needed by the > people who are doing the

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 10/22/18 11:14 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Kevin Fenzi writes: > > On 10/21/18 6:12 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > > years now. abompard has a few commits, he and pingu still answer mail > > > but that's about it. > > > > Well, he has 980 commits, much more than anyone else.

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:22 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On 10/22/18 9:49 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:40 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> > >> On 10/22/18 7:35 AM, Aurelien Bompard wrote: > abompard has a few commits, he and pingu still answer mail > but that's about it

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kevin Fenzi writes: > On 10/21/18 6:12 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > years now. abompard has a few commits, he and pingu still answer mail > > but that's about it. > > Well, he has 980 commits, much more than anyone else. Sure, but in the last couple of years there are only a couple

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 10/22/18 9:49 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:40 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> >> On 10/22/18 7:35 AM, Aurelien Bompard wrote: abompard has a few commits, he and pingu still answer mail but that's about it. >>> >>> I agree that my activity on HyperKitty has slowed down a

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:40 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On 10/22/18 7:35 AM, Aurelien Bompard wrote: > >> abompard has a few commits, he and pingu still answer mail > >> but that's about it. > > > > I agree that my activity on HyperKitty has slowed down a lot these last > > years, because I got i

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 10/22/18 7:35 AM, Aurelien Bompard wrote: >> abompard has a few commits, he and pingu still answer mail >> but that's about it. > > I agree that my activity on HyperKitty has slowed down a lot these last > years, because I got involved with other projects too. > >> No, it can't, can it. Fedo

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Aurelien Bompard
> abompard has a few commits, he and pingu still answer mail > but that's about it. I agree that my activity on HyperKitty has slowed down a lot these last years, because I got involved with other projects too. > No, it can't, can it. Fedora is not keeping up with upstream, which > means that "

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-22 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:05 AM Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Required disclosure: Mailman dev, and my sympathies are with the list > advocates for this channel both for that reason, and for more > objective ones. I don't really argue against a move to Discourse > here, but I do know a bit about

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-21 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 10/21/18 6:12 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Kevin Fenzi writes: > > > Huh. The only person I know of from Fedora at least that was > > working on it was abompard. While he's working on other things now, > > as far as I know he's still working on mailman3/hyperkitty as time > > permits. >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kevin Fenzi writes: > Huh. The only person I know of from Fedora at least that was > working on it was abompard. While he's working on other things now, > as far as I know he's still working on mailman3/hyperkitty as time > permits. pingu and abadger also contributed. Don't know their exact

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-21 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 10/20/18 9:09 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Kevin Fenzi writes: > > On 10/19/18 6:43 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > You know why the usage numbers bear that out? Because the upgrade to > > > HyperKitty was mishandled and delayed over and over. We were screwed > > > over by the fact that o

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dan Book writes: > It is not a format of their own, but it's not appropriate for > plaintext, so it sounds like a bug to me. But that's exactly my point. *We* think it's a bug, but *they* chose it deliberately. Undoubtedly people have tools expecting it, etc. I've been on both sides of that

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-21 Thread David Demelier
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 07:12 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller < > mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > ... > > That's why the general trend is *away* from email. > > > > The Foreman community recently switched away from mailing lists in > this way, > > and

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > So, my opinion on email vs. web forum is that it is comes down to > freedom vs. lock-in. Right. What does migration out of Discourse look like? -- Chris Murphy ___ devel mailing list -- devel@list

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Chris Adams
So, my opinion on email vs. web forum is that it is comes down to freedom vs. lock-in. With mailing lists (and Usenet), messages are distributed in a more-or-less well-defined format, and users are able to choose clients, filtering, etc. to suit their use patterns. Sometimes people do novel thing

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Dan Book
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:09 AM Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes: > > Gerald B. Cox writes: > > > > Regardless, as I mentioned above, if they have a bug, then it > > > should be reported for them to address. > > > > I wouldn't call it a bug, just bad UX f

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
stan writes: > So, you are really gung-ho for Discourse. IMO, that's not nasty, but it wasn't necessary and could be taken badly in context. Just, "as a proponent, I'd like to ask you" is good when things are getting heated. Your questions are important[1], and I'd like to gloss them: > What

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kevin Fenzi writes: > On 10/19/18 6:43 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > You know why the usage numbers bear that out? Because the upgrade to > > HyperKitty was mishandled and delayed over and over. We were screwed > > over by the fact that our infrastructure doesn't run on Fedora, so > > that made i

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Igor Gnatenko
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 18:30 Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:00 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:31 AM Chris Adams wrote: > >> > >> Once upon a time, R P Herrold said: > >> > This seems very tone deaf and lacking in introspection, Matt > >> > > >> > perha

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Required disclosure: Mailman dev, and my sympathies are with the list advocates for this channel both for that reason, and for more objective ones. I don't really argue against a move to Discourse here, but I do know a bit about the problem space, and I'd like to discuss *some* aspects here. I ex

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Björn Persson
Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:31 AM Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, R P Herrold said: > > > perhaps by reading the subject line you chose to start this > > > thread with > > > > Matt didn't choose that - that subject was set by Gerald B. Cox. > > > > As I previousl

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Máirín Duffy
Gerald, I'm the person who designed Hyperkitty's concept on a napkin on a shuttlebus with Luke Macken some years ago. Your characterization of it here is incorrect. I say this with respect, please try to listen more than you post. Hyperkitty stats show you're dominating this conveesation. ~m _

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:58 PM stan wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 08:58:57 -0700 > "Gerald B. Cox" wrote: > > Software is a tool for me. I don't get emotionally attached to it - > > as some people apparently are. It's a bit telling that > > many people seem to be afraid that Discourse will be a

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Máirín Duffy
Re: teenagers and timelines, I'm just addressing the specific concerns that were raised to me. ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https:

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Randy Barlow
On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 13:05 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > For example, github and bugzilla work because they > have full email messages. I don't have to go to the website to get > the > rest of the message. You actually can reply to the e-mails from GitHub (not sure about Bugzilla). They do threa

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/19/18 8:58 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: Software is a tool for me.  I don't get emotionally attached to it - as some people apparently are.  It's a bit telling that many people seem to be afraid that Discourse will be a success. I'm not emotionally attached to it, but I am somewhat afraid th

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread stan
reading the subject line you chose to start this > > > thread with > > > > Matt didn't choose that - that subject was set by Gerald B. Cox. Yeah, it is kind of confrontational; there's a big difference between 'Should Fedora replace mailing lists with

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, R P Herrold said: > > This seems very tone deaf and lacking in introspection, Matt > > > > perhaps by reading the subject line you chose to start this > > thread with > > Matt didn't choose that - that subject was set by Gerald B. Cox

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 07:49:41AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > Oh really... I said that... perhaps you should take 5 seconds and read the > subject of the thread. Hey, let's please keep this friendly. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ dev

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 07:28 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > And if this conversation were in Discourse, we could simply move it to a > new topic ;-) Some people see it as history rewriting ... one of the reasons I like email is that *you* can't change stuff after the fact, because *I* have it ar

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:40:18AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > I don't like saying this, but what it comes down to is that our > relationship with RHEL has evolved into a one-sided affair. I wish > someone who is empowered to do something about it would, but the rest > of us can't. > > Frankly, I s

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 10/19/18 6:43 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: >> >> Again, I believe some are trying to do an apples to apples comparison with >> Discourse and mailing list technologies. Discourse was build from the >> ground up with the goal of fostering communi

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:19:43PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > I'm more afraid that it'll be a success with casualties. In other > words, it'll be a failure but not look like one at a glance. Driving > people away and making it harder to keep track of topics of import is > going to necessarily const

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:00 PM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:31 AM Chris Adams wrote: >> >> Once upon a time, R P Herrold said: >> > This seems very tone deaf and lacking in introspection, Matt >> > >> > perhaps by reading the subject line you chose to start this >> > thre

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:31 AM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, R P Herrold said: > > This seems very tone deaf and lacking in introspection, Matt > > > > perhaps by reading the subject line you chose to start this > > thread with > > Matt didn't choose that - that subject was set by Gera

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, R P Herrold said: > This seems very tone deaf and lacking in introspection, Matt > > perhaps by reading the subject line you chose to start this > thread with Matt didn't choose that - that subject was set by Gerald B. Cox. -- Chris Adams

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Matthew Miller wrote: >> Neal Gompa: >> because you're dead set on this anyway. > Matt Miller: > I ... don't know how to engage constructively with this accusation, because > it it seems to come from absolutely nowhere. Yes, we're *definitely* trying This seems very tone de

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2018 à 07:54 -0700, Gerald B. Cox a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:43 AM Nicolas Mailhot < > > You really should try it, you might like it. BTW, there are no ads in > the Fedora Discourse instance, so > not sure what you are talking about there. As far as email is > c

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:43 AM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 19 octobre 2018 à 07:28 -0700, Gerald B. Cox a écrit : > > And if this conversation were in Discourse, we could simply move it to > > a new topic ;-) > > And if it where is discourse I would’t participate in it. > > Basicall

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:41 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > I'm not talking about you in the Fedora sense. I'm talking about > Gerald and his saying "we must move everything to Discourse". > Oh really... I said that... perhaps you should take 5 seconds and read the subject of the thread. As far as

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2018 à 07:28 -0700, Gerald B. Cox a écrit : > And if this conversation were in Discourse, we could simply move it to > a new topic ;-) And if it where is discourse I would’t participate in it. Basically, as others said, not interested in shiny tech that has no notion of

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:11 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:43:48AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > It's also bad for archiving, since threads are inherently unstable. > > Conversation splitting and merging is very awkward (as I've observed > > in the Snapcraft Discourse). I

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:10:22AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > I ... don't know how to engage constructively with this accusation, because > it it seems to come from absolutely nowhere. Yes, we're *definitely* trying > out Discourse. That's not a conspiracy — it's live! We're also trying out > H

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
And if this conversation were in Discourse, we could simply move it to a new topic ;-) On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:21 AM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le vendredi 19 octobre 2018 à 14:55 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé a écrit : > > > > I don't know why Red Hat's mailman impl isn't upgraded, but it is >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2018 à 14:55 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé a écrit : > > I don't know why Red Hat's mailman impl isn't upgraded, but it is > not blocked by lack of Python 3 on RHEL. > > Red Hat Software Collections have been providing Python 3.x versions > that run on RHEL since ~2013. They ex

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:43:48AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > It's also bad for archiving, since threads are inherently unstable. > Conversation splitting and merging is very awkward (as I've observed > in the Snapcraft Discourse). I can keep going, but it doesn't matter, > because you're dead set

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:45 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Again, I believe some are trying to do an apples to apples comparison > with Discourse and mailing list technologies. Discourse was build from the > ground up with the goal of foster

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:43:48AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > That *completely* handicapped adoption of HyperKitty, because > HyperKitty requires Mailman 3. What's worse, because it's almost > impossible to run on RHEL due to the lack of Python 3 (which continues > to anger and frustrate me), Red H

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Again, I believe some are trying to do an apples to apples comparison with > Discourse and mailing list technologies. Discourse was build from the ground > up with the goal of fostering communication and collaboration. Hyperkitty is > a

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Again, I believe some are trying to do an apples to apples comparison with Discourse and mailing list technologies. Discourse was build from the ground up with the goal of fostering communication and collaboration. Hyperkitty is a bolt on HTML to mailing list archives. It's good for what it is, b

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Federico Bruni
> On 2018-10-17 13:41, John Florian wrote: > > How does Discourse handle posts you've already read in a > thread that's still active.  With things like reddit or LWN, you get to > read it over and over and over again if you really want to see whats new > now. It handles it very well. You don't

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Federico Bruni
> On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 23:04, Dominik wrote: > [...] > > So, I tried to answer in one of the threads and it's quite difficult, > in my opinion. The message compose pop-up doesn't quote the message > I'm replying to, so I can't write my comments in response to specific > passages by the

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Philip Rhoades
Máirín, On 2018-10-19 14:43, Máirín Duffy wrote: I'm open to all of those suggestions as well as committing to design and CSS work for them. I would need a web dev to help me though; I'm not great with Django. Please note, the reason Hyperkitty didn't cause this sort of thread or honestly any

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Johnny Robeson
On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 03:43 +, Máirín Duffy wrote: > I'm open to all of those suggestions as well as committing to design and CSS > work for them. I would need a web dev to help me though; I'm not great with > Django. > > Please note, the reason Hyperkitty didn't cause this sort of thread or

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Hi, Máirín. On Friday, 19 October 2018 at 05:43, Máirín Duffy wrote: [...] > I believe quite strongly (and have from the start when I first heard > of the project) that Discourse's basic UX model is fundamentally > flawed. If we deploy discourse and roll it out, we *may* get new > users, but as n

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
Randy Barlow writes: > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> Discourse is *definitely* not a smooth, drop-in mailing list >> replacement >> like Hyperkitty is. > > I'm curious what is insufficient about Hyperkitty that Discourse does > well at. Badges, those are super impor

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 23:04, Gerald B. Cox wrote: [...] > I wouldn't expect it to be a "drop-in" mailing list replacement. > Yes, it allows some backward compatibility by providing > "mailing-list mode" - but you're going to get a richer > experience if you use native interfaces. So, I t

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Todd Zullinger
Máirín Duffy wrote: > So our Hyperkitty version is old here. I can't reporduce the issue on > mailman3.org's HK, which is newer. I suspect this is a bug that's been fixed. Indeed it was. An infrastructure ticket was filed ~7 months back¹ and the issue was addressed upstream in 7558682 ("Fix quot

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Federico Bruni
> On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:14 -0400, Randy Barlow (manually corrected) wrote: > > I'm curious what is insufficient about Hyperkitty that Discourse does > well at. A lot of stuff. If you try any Discourse website out there you'll see it immediately. Just an example. In Hyperkitty, when a new unr

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Federico Bruni
> I'm replying from Hyperkitty interface. > > I clicked on Quote to quote your email, Randy, but your words appear as > written by > Matthew. Not good... > Also it seems there's no way to mark a thread as read/unread or special. > I have the feeling that following a list in Hyperkitty is almost i

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Máirín Duffy
So our Hyperkitty version is old here. I can't reporduce the issue on mailman3.org's HK, which is newer. I suspect this is a bug that's been fixed. ~m ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@li

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Federico Bruni
> On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > I'm curious what is insufficient about Hyperkitty that Discourse does > well at. Wasn't Hyperkitty supposed to give people the forum > experience? I admit I haven't used it that much for reading or posting > (though I do use it for arc

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Máirín Duffy
I'm open to all of those suggestions as well as committing to design and CSS work for them. I would need a web dev to help me though; I'm not great with Django. Please note, the reason Hyperkitty didn't cause this sort of thread or honestly any sort of drama or controversy when it was deployed

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:11 PM Randy Barlow wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 14:04 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > Here is a link to discourse features: > > https://www.discourse.org/features > > > > I view hyperkitty as just a web interface for mailing lists - not > > much more > > than that. >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 14:04 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > Here is a link to discourse features: > https://www.discourse.org/features > > I view hyperkitty as just a web interface for mailing lists - not > much more > than that. > Discourse provides a more complete conversation / collaboration > en

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:15 PM Randy Barlow wrote: > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Discourse is *definitely* not a smooth, drop-in mailing list > > replacement > > like Hyperkitty is. > > I'm curious what is insufficient about Hyperkitty that Discourse does > well

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Discourse is *definitely* not a smooth, drop-in mailing list > replacement > like Hyperkitty is. I'm curious what is insufficient about Hyperkitty that Discourse does well at. Wasn't Hyperkitty supposed to give people the forum experience?

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:40 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 10/18/18 6:31 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > Actually, I think that just creating a new discourse instance for > > discussions keeping the mailing > > lists around would be a good solution. You wouldn't have to worry about > > registration

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Gerald B. Cox [18/10/2018 06:31] : > > Actually, I think that just creating a new discourse instance for > discussions keeping the mailing lists around would be a good solution. The way I read this, it implies we would fragment developement disccusion in two, the people using mailing lists on on

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:34:45PM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > You're missing the point of this thread - it's about the capabilities > of a tool to foster discussion and communication between mulitiple > people - it's not about cloning email software. What is "email software", if not a tool to

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 12:12 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:03 PM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 11:51 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrot

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:24:03PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > Using GMail (both legacy and Inbox) as a representation of email > workflow and ergonomy is not fair. Gmail as a client is abysmal. > No threading, no coloring of different level of citation, no integrated > GPG support, no comforta

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 10/18/18 6:31 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:33 AM Matthew Miller > wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:39:30PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: >>> I cannot *ever* recommend, in good conscious, moving to Discourse for >>> Fedora development discussions. >>> >>> However, I thi

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:28 PM wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > You need to read the entire thread in context, including subsequent > > responses. I realize that can be difficult on a mailing list, with > > all the top-posting, conversation snippets, etc. >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:24 PM Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > You like gmail […] > > Using GMail (both legacy and Inbox) as a representation of email > workflow and ergonomy is not fair. Gmail as a client is abysmal. > No threading, no coloring of different level of citation, no integrated > GPG

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread tonynelson
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > You need to read the entire thread in context, including subsequent > responses. I realize that can be difficult on a mailing list, with > all the top-posting, conversation snippets, etc. We have been doing that. The features touted for Di

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 03:02:52PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 11:51 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrot

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:03 PM Simo Sorce wrote: > On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 11:51 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb > wrote: > >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 11:51 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > > > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Again, I use gmail and things look perfectly fine for me. > > > > > > T

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 11:02 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > Again, I use gmail and things look perfectly fine for me. > > > > That's because gmail only shows the HTML part. > > > > Ah... so

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:00:32PM +, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > How do I start a thread on Discourse from email? We should start this > > discussion over there so we can experience it ourselves. > > So, yeah, that's a thing: we cu

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread John Florian
On 10/17/18 4:27 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:54:23PM -0400, John Florian wrote: With things like reddit or LWN, you get to read it over and over and over again if you really want to see whats new now. https://lwn.net/Comments/unread will show you comments posted aftery

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:33 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:39:30PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > I cannot *ever* recommend, in good conscious, moving to Discourse for > > Fedora development discussions. > > > > However, I think it's fantastic for user support, as those are

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:39:30PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > I cannot *ever* recommend, in good conscious, moving to Discourse for > Fedora development discussions. > > However, I think it's fantastic for user support, as those are much > more context free, incidental, and so on. I've wished for

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:29:33AM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > I am not saying switching to Discourse is a *bad* idea. I am saying > that I, at least, would like to see a more serious proposal than > simply "just do it because it's better". That might require switching > one list over and seeing how

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 21:15, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:55 PM John Florian wrote: > > > > How does Discourse handle posts you've already read in a thread that's > > still active. With things like reddit or LWN, you get to read it over and > > over and over again

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 17:52, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 7:38 AM Anderson, Charles R wrote: [...] > > It is > > also required to send semantically similar contents in both the > > text/plain and text/html parts, so that the text/plain part can act as > > a real human-

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:54:23PM -0400, John Florian wrote: > With things like reddit or LWN, you get to read it > over and over and over again if you really want to see whats new now.  https://lwn.net/Comments/unread will show you comments posted afteryour last visit, with one post in grey to

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 16:35 Anderson, Charles R wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:52:17PM -0300, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > I'm not an email expert by any means. What I said was that it works > > perfectly fine for me. If people have an issue with it they should file a > > bug or enhancement req

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:52:17PM -0300, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > I'm not an email expert by any means. What I said was that it works > perfectly fine for me. If people have an issue with it they should file a > bug or enhancement request with the discourse project. That way the issue > could be ad

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:55 PM John Florian wrote: > > How does Discourse handle posts you've already read in a thread that's still > active. With things like reddit or LWN, you get to read it over and over and > over again if you really want to see whats new now. Discourse handles this quite

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread John Florian
l. So, really, you've used it for a couple of days, have declared it fine, and then boldly declared "Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse".  But I've used it for a bit longer, and my experience has simply been negative.  The discourse system simpl

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 15:31 Anderson, Charles R wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:02:58AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Again, I use gmail and things look perfectly fine for me. >

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:02:58AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > Again, I use gmail and things look perfectly fine for me. > > > > That's because gmail only shows the HTML part. > > > > Ah..

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:48 AM Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > > The thing is, it doesn't matter. Discourse is *not* designed to >> support the types of discussions that do happen on these lists, nor is >> it designed to handle the load or the number of disparate >> conversations. > > > > I've exp

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