Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Zander Brown
On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 02:43 +0300, Andrey Repin via dia-list wrote: > if you CBA to subscribe, I can't be any more helpful to deal with you > personally. They are a volunteer coordinating the migration of dozens of lists, it's not unreasonable they don't want to subscribe to lists they aren't

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Olav Vitters via dia-list! > Dear subscribers, > Please cc me on replies. CC whom? The list is set in such a way that it blanks the original sender. And no, I don't have a habit of "replying to all" in public mailing lists. I reply to the list, if you CBA to subscribe, I can't be any

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 02:36:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: I quote from the TOS: == 16. Indemnification You agree to indemnify and hold harmless GNOME, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors,

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:36:49 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > So if some crazy guy doesn't like what you say, and sues Gnome for a > million dollars, even though what you said was perfectly OK, it isn't > Google's problem, it's yours. Whoops, I meant to say "it isn't Gnome's problem." Google has no

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020, Olav Vitters wrote: Thanks, up to now that lack of creating a new topic/thread via email wasn't much of a problem. Hopefully by raising it as an issue it can get fixed. Upstream (Discourse) was ok with the idea, but seems there aren't too many people who complained. I did

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 05:49:52AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: +1 unless email alone can initiate threads and respond to those we initiate. Thanks, up to now that lack of creating a new topic/thread via email wasn't much of a problem. Hopefully by raising it as an issue it can get fixed.

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Buzz
On Wednesday, 21 October 2020 12:52:56 AM NZDT rhkramer--- via dia-list wrote: > On Tuesday, October 20, 2020 02:52:23 AM Steve Litt wrote: > > I can't imagine anything friendlier than email. It comes to you, you > > read it, you reply. No need to join yet another third party, no need to > > read

Re: Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Ron Wilson via dia-list
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 5:41 AM wrote: > > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:51:57 +0200 > From: Slavko > Subject: Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:52:23 -0400 Steve Litt > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:25:40 +0

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:56:27 +0100 Zander Brown wrote: > On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 07:52 -0400, rhkramer--- via dia-list wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 20, 2020 02:52:23 AM Steve Litt wrote: > > > I can't imagine anything friendlier than email. It comes to you, > > > you read it, you reply. No

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:30:55 +0100 Zander Brown wrote: > GNOME Discourse is much the same but unfortunately someone decided we > would use tags instead of subcategories and Discourse doesn't (yet?) There's that word "unfortunately" again. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book:

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Zander Brown
On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 05:49 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > The JabRef mail list uses discourse but also provides the capabilities for > me (and others like me) to initiate new threads and respond to others using > email only. No need to open a browser tab and navigate to the group's page. GNOME

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Zander Brown
On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 07:52 -0400, rhkramer--- via dia-list wrote: > On Tuesday, October 20, 2020 02:52:23 AM Steve Litt wrote: > > I can't imagine anything friendlier than email. It comes to you, you > > read it, you reply. No need to join yet another third party, no need to > > read and agree to

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Zander Brown
On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 07:19 -0400, Michael Ross via dia-list wrote: > This is certainly, a surprise. No ongoing discussion, just here you go, live > with it. Note Olav's wording: The proposed closure It's not a case of "this is going to happen fullstop" but rather "this will happen if nobody

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine anything friendlier than email. It comes to you, you read it, you reply. No need to join yet another third party, no need to read and agree to yet another legal contract, many of which have "take your house" indemnification clauses. Yes,

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread rhkramer--- via dia-list
On Tuesday, October 20, 2020 02:52:23 AM Steve Litt wrote: > I can't imagine anything friendlier than email. It comes to you, you > read it, you reply. No need to join yet another third party, no need to > read and agree to yet another legal contract, many of which have "take > your house"

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Michael Ross via dia-list
This is certainly, a surprise. No ongoing discussion, just here you go, live with it. I have been replying to newbie emails here for at least 15 years. I will not be migrating to Discourse with Dia. I am familiar with Discourse. But, I don't use it the same way as an email list, and even for

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 02:25:40PM +0200, Olav Vitters via dia-list wrote: > The proposed closure of this mailing list will be on: Oct 30th, 2020 After not having used this list in years, this is probably the right time to say goodbye. Greetings Marc --

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Olav Vitters via dia-list
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:52 AM Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:25:40 +0200 > Olav Vitters via dia-list wrote: > > We've set up https://discourse.gnome.org a year and a half ago, as > > part of an attempt at making the GTK mailing list more friendly to > > newcomers. > > I can't

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:51:57 +0200 Slavko via dia-list wrote: > I am happy to see, that i am not only one with this point of view. > I will not register, nowhere and especially no for ML with 10 > messages/year. I think, that nobody will register to only post one > occasional question. I hadn't

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Slavko via dia-list
Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:52:23 -0400 Steve Litt napísal: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:25:40 +0200 > Olav Vitters via dia-list wrote: > > > Dear subscribers, > > > > Please cc me on replies. You want to we register and you are sluggish to subscribe? Interesting... > > > > We've set up

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:25:40 +0200 Olav Vitters via dia-list wrote: > Dear subscribers, > > Please cc me on replies. > > We've set up https://discourse.gnome.org a year and a half ago, as > part of an attempt at making the GTK mailing list more friendly to > newcomers. I can't imagine

Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-19 Thread Zander Brown
On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 14:25 +0200, Olav Vitters via dia-list wrote: > For dia-list the new discussions would take place in the Applications > category on Discourse using the 'dia' tag. Unfortunately creating a new > thread with a dia tag is not possible at this time, the following link can be >

Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

2020-10-19 Thread Olav Vitters via dia-list
Dear subscribers, Please cc me on replies. We've set up https://discourse.gnome.org a year and a half ago, as part of an attempt at making the GTK mailing list more friendly to newcomers. This experiment seems to have proven itself well enough, and has since expanded to other territories as