Ah, fair point!
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:25 AM Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > On 12. Mar 2020, at 16:21, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm not against anything of that nature, but if memory serves the > > email lists are dictated by ASF policy. > > If you remember when we did the GitHub transition, as long as we can make > sure messages end up on a mailing list, we should be fine wrt the > requirements. > > Best > Jan > — > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:32 AM Garren Smith <gar...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> The CouchDB slack channel has been a real success with lots of people > >> asking for help and getting involved. The main issue is that it is not > >> searchable so we often get people asking the same questions over and over. > >> The user mailing list is great in that sense that if you have subscribed to > >> it you have a searchable list of questions and answers. However, it's > >> really not user-friendly and judging by the fact that it has very low user > >> participation I'm guessing most people prefer to use slack to ask > >> questions. > >> > >> I've been really impressed with how the FoundationDB forum[1] and the rust > >> internal forum work [2]. I find them easy to use and really encourage > >> participation. I would like to propose that we move our user and dev > >> discussion to Discourse or a forum that works as well as Discourse. I think > >> that would make it really easy for users of CouchDB to look up answers to > >> questions and get involved in the development discussion. > >> > >> I haven't checked yet, but I'm sure we could get all discourse threads to > >> automatically email back to the user and dev mailing list so that we still > >> fulfill our Apache requirements. > >> > >> I know its a big step away from what we're used to with our mailing lists, > >> but I think it would definitely open up our community. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Garren > >> > >> > >> [1] https://forums.foundationdb.org/ > >> [2] https://internals.rust-lang.org/ >
