On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:03:41 -0500 John Kaufmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-02-17 04:06, sophi wrote: > > > Just to let you know, we, at TDF, are working on replacing the Ask > > forum by Discourse. We have had a test period with the members > > regularly answering on Ask. If Discourse is not fully replacing a > > Q&A forum, it is the most appropriate at the moment and we can > > extend it to serve other purposes on the future. > > The difficulty is currently to migrate the Ask archive to > > Discourse, but that will be worked out by our infra team on the > > next months. > > Looks interesting, and seems to have potential to subsume also the > mailing list system. (It needs to be integrated with a MTA, which it > does not provide, but merging web and mailing list forums seems to be > an explicit objective.) If so, that could solve the problem of which > forum (AskLibO or mailing list) to use for a question. Is the intent > to also migrate the mailing lists to Discourse? I seriously hope not! Discourse works OK as a forum but the mailing list side is very much a poor cousin. Far easier and better to use a plain mailing list IME & IMHO. > BTW, it was amusing to learn that not everyone is a fan. The > Wikipedia description is the third hit on a search "discourse forum" > in both DuckDuckGo and Google, but they summarize it differently: > Google: "Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing > list management software application ..." DuckDuckGo: "Discourse is > an awful open source Internet forum and mailing list management > software application ..." :-) FWIW, I look forward to seeing it, -John > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
