Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-24 Thread Eric Schulte
Thanks to Google Summer of Code and to Thorsten's Bugpile project we should have an interactive web front-end to Org-mode files by the end of the summer. Perhaps we can delay the addition of comments to Worg until this project is complete and then we can implement comments entirely using Emacs

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-24 Thread Christian Moe
That was my thought, too. Managing comments as Org items would be pretty cool. Christian Eric Schulte eric.schu...@gmx.com wrote: Thanks to Google Summer of Code and to Thorsten's Bugpile project we should have an interactive web front-end to Org-mode files by the end of the summer. Perhaps we

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-24 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: That was my thought, too. Managing comments as Org items would be pretty cool. Christian Eric Schulte eric.schu...@gmx.com wrote: Thanks to Google Summer of Code and to Thorsten's Bugpile project we should have an interactive web front-end to

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-24 Thread Bastien
Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.com writes: iOrg will be the ultimate Disqus killer (hopefully ;) No doubt! In the meantime, I'm still interested in testing Kyle's solution -- not necessarily for Org, but for the fun of testing it! -- Bastien

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-20 Thread Bastien
Hi Kyle, Kyle Sexton k...@mocker.org writes: Some other options could be: - Roll our own commenting system (a quick github search found https://github.com/phusion/juvia) - Setup automatic backups of comments using the disqus API, http://docs.disqus.com/developers/export/ Thanks for

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-20 Thread Kyle Sexton
Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Maybe first setup an instance on your server so that we can test it. Then if people prefer this solution and Jason is okay to work with you on installing it on orgmode.org, let's do this. Ok, I'll setup an instance to let people play with and see if it's a

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-16 Thread Steinar Bang
Karl Voit devn...@karl-voit.at: Mailinglists - though currently handled by gmane which is also a company - Gmane isn't a company and does not handle the org mailing list(s). Gmane is one man that gets donated server location, old servers, and network hosting from his employer. And gmane is

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-16 Thread Kyle Sexton
Brian van den Broek brian.van.den.br...@gmail.com writes: On 8 Apr 2012 13:44, Karl Voit snip Oh I'd like to warn here: disqus is a private commercial company that wants to make money. Their strategy can (and will) change from one day to the other. An enthusiastic +1 from this largely

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-09 Thread Karl Voit
* Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Gmane is not a company: http://gmane.org/about.php Besides, the mailing list isn't run in any way by Gmane. Exactly. The mailing list is run by the GNU project and hosted on the GNU servers. We owe a lot to GNU. And we

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-09 Thread Samuel Wales
Long shot: is making worg more wiki-like practical? -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com

[O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful (was: Disqus commenting system tested on Worg)

2012-04-08 Thread Karl Voit
* John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2012 4:28 AM, Bastien b...@gnu.org wrote: The question now is: on what Worg pages should we have this comment system? True. And how to balance the mailing list vs disqus... While thw mailing list is great, sometimes for the life of me I

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 08.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Karl Voit: Mailinglists - though currently handled by gmane which is also a company - are a standard that is independent from any company. You can extract the complete archive if you want and host it somewhere else. No fuzz here. Gmane is not a company:

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful (was: Disqus commenting system tested on Worg)

2012-04-08 Thread Brian van den Broek
On 8 Apr 2012 13:44, Karl Voit snip Oh I'd like to warn here: disqus is a private commercial company that wants to make money. Their strategy can (and will) change from one day to the other. An enthusiastic +1 from this largely lurking list member. Best, Brian vdB

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-08 Thread Bastien
Hi all, there is no plan for changing the role and usage of the mailing list. This role and usage are in *our* hands. The idea behind a lightweight commenting system is not to split discussion areas, but to gather non-permanent feedback, to help spot small typos, etc. If worgers think

Re: [O] Usage of disqus instead of mailinglist considered harmful

2012-04-08 Thread Bastien
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Am 08.04.2012 13:43, schrieb Karl Voit: Mailinglists - though currently handled by gmane which is also a company - are a standard that is independent from any company. You can extract the complete archive if you want and host it somewhere else. No fuzz