Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-23 Thread Benjamin Berg
On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 18:47 -0700, Philip Chimento via foundation-list wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:50 PM Tobias Mueller > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 2019-10-04 at 18:35 -0700, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I don't find it the best policy to optimize for the convenience of > >

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-17 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 3:47 AM wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:50 PM Tobias Mueller wrote: > I would _expect_ zero. I don't sign up to the mailing list of a nonprofit so > I can watch people abuse the nonprofit's staff. Just like I would expect zero of these unpleasant messages on

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-16 Thread Philip Chimento via foundation-list
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:50 PM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2019-10-04 at 18:35 -0700, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > > I don't find it the best policy to optimize for the convenience of > > non-members who want to send insulting rants to foundation-list > Sure. But I don't think

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Fri, 2019-10-04 at 18:35 -0700, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > I don't find it the best policy to optimize for the convenience of > non-members who want to send insulting rants to foundation-list Sure. But I don't think we're optimising for those. In fact, the number of insulting rants

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-05 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan via foundation-list
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 4:26 PM Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 6:01 PM meg ford wrote: > > Thanks! Good point. I do need to send emails to foundation list on behalf of > > the Travel Committee though and dealing with moderation as someone who > > isn’t a list member could be

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-05 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 6:01 PM meg ford wrote: > Thanks! Good point. I do need to send emails to foundation list on behalf of > the Travel Committee though and dealing with moderation as someone who > isn’t a list member could be time consuming. What’s to deal with? Moderators (I am one of them)

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-04 Thread Philip Chimento via foundation-list
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:32 AM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:00 -0500, meg ford via foundation-list wrote: > > I do need to send emails to foundation list on > > behalf of the Travel Committee though and dealing with moderation as > > someone who isn’t a list member

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-04 Thread meg ford via foundation-list
Hi, On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 2:32 AM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:00 -0500, meg ford via foundation-list wrote: > > I do need to send emails to foundation list on > > behalf of the Travel Committee though and dealing with moderation as > > someone who isn’t a list

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-04 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:00 -0500, meg ford via foundation-list wrote: > I do need to send emails to foundation list on > behalf of the Travel Committee though and dealing with moderation as > someone who isn’t a list member could be time consuming. It's not so much, esp. since a whitelist

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-03 Thread Michael Catanzaro
I won't take a stance on Discourse but I would like to hear from our Discourse moderators about their thoughts on a couple moderation issues I've noticed. #1, posts are being hidden rather aggressively, including seemingly innocuous posts like

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-03 Thread meg ford via foundation-list
Hi, On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:38 PM Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > I am a GNOME Foundation Member *Emeritus*, so please don't take my opinion > as > too important. > > Olav Vitters wrote, back in August when proposing Discourse: > > Discourse is free software (including the Javascript) and the > >

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-03 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
I am a GNOME Foundation Member *Emeritus*, so please don't take my opinion as too important. Olav Vitters wrote, back in August when proposing Discourse: > Discourse is free software (including the Javascript) and the > dependencies are also free software. This is correct, "for the moment".

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-03 Thread meg ford via foundation-list
Hi, On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:28 AM Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:14 PM meg ford via foundation-list > wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Meg, > > > I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to > leave foundation list, but still want to read Board minutes. > >

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-03 Thread Allan Day
Neil McGovern wrote: ... > > I think with Discourse you have to opt in to get email notifications? > > That could be an issue. Certainly with things like the AGM, the board > > is required to serve notice to all members. > > Yes, you do. Although for AGM notices etc, I don't think it's >

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-03 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:14 PM meg ford via foundation-list wrote: > Hi, Hi Meg, > I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to leave > foundation list, but still want to read Board minutes. Board minutes are posted to foundation-announce as well so if that’s all you

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-02 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan via foundation-list
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:44 AM meg ford via foundation-list wrote: > I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to leave > foundation list, but still want to read Board minutes. > +1, the latest unsolicited spam/troll email on the foundation list has really been the final

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-10-02 Thread meg ford via foundation-list
Hi, I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to leave foundation list, but still want to read Board minutes. Thanks, Meg On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:22 AM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote: > > It's > > even possible to

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-05 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote: > It's > even possible to make Discourse behave like an mailing list. I found the discourse mailing list mode to be inferior to a mailing list. For example, code posted on the Web looks much different than what gets sent via email, cf.

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 11:09 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > I think with Discourse you have to opt in to get email notifications? > That could be an issue. Certainly with things like the AGM, the board > is required to serve notice to all members. Yes, you do. Although for AGM notices etc, I don't

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-04 Thread Allan Day
Neil McGovern wrote: ... > On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 11:10 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > Not objecting at all but I think this raises a couple questions as to > > what it would entail, most notable regarding board meeting minutes > > and other announcements. Currently, most of them are sent to

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 01:51 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I have heard that there is a gateway between Discourse and email. > Is it possible to use that here? > It's already in place. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-03 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I have heard that there is a gateway between Discourse and email. Is it possible to

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-09-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 11:10 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > Not objecting at all but I think this raises a couple questions as to > what it would entail, most notable regarding board meeting minutes > and other announcements. Currently, most of them are sent to the > foundation-announce list

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-08-30 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:19 PM Olav Vitters wrote: > Was there a discussion about this at GUADEC? As it's been a while and > nobody seems to object I think everything is ok with moving to > Discourse. Not objecting at all but I think this raises a couple questions as to what it would entail,

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-08-30 Thread Allan Day
Olav Vitters wrote: ... > Was there a discussion about this at GUADEC? As it's been a while and > nobody seems to object I think everything is ok with moving to > Discourse. Given the positive response to other lists migrating, I'd be in favour. I think my only question is a more general one

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-08-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Sounds good to me. As the person who pushed engagement team to move > over, I'm fully behind moving everything to discourse! Was there a discussion about this at GUADEC? As it's been a while and nobody seems to object I think

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-08-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sounds good to me. As the person who pushed engagement team to move over, I'm fully behind moving everything to discourse! sri On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:03 PM Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi Olav, > > On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote: > > it has been around half a year since

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-08-16 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Olav, On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote: > it has been around half a year since GNOME started to host a > Discourse[0] instance, which was generally well received. > > Listadmin wise (I'm NOT the admin here!), mailman is not really nice > to > use. If something ends up in