> Discourse will provide us an incoming email address. All email sent to > this address will become a post in discourse. We need to add this > address into the [email protected]'s subcriber list.
This is talking about Discourse SaaS which cost about $100 ($50 if we have non-profit discount). If we can request a vm from ASF Infra, we will need: - VM with 4C8G - Postgresql - A SMTP account to send mails - A domain like discuss.opendal.apache.org On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, at 18:55, Xuanwo wrote: >> Does it need any configuration from the mailing list part, i.e., >> involve INFRA setup? > > Discourse will provide us an incoming email address. All email sent to > this address will become a post in discourse. We need to add this > address into the [email protected]'s subcriber list. > > No another setup needed, AFAIK. > > We need some test and demo to make sure everything works as expected. > At the time of writing, I don't know how to do that. > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, at 18:19, tison wrote: >>> called mailing list mode >> >> Does it need any configuration from the mailing list part, i.e., >> involve INFRA setup? >> >> I don't know how this happen but as long as we have a readable copy on >> the dev@ mailing list, other integration as view can be OK. >> >> Best, >> tison. >> >> Jun Ouyang <[email protected]> 于2023年12月19日周二 18:16写道： >>> >>> Hi xuanwo: >>> That’s great! I strongly agree with this change. But I have a concern about >>> markdown support sync to Maillist, It seems will cause more bad experiences >>> for Maillist users. >>> >>> *GPG public key: 4A6D297E6F74638E4D5F8E99152AC7B5F7608B26* >>> *Thanks,* >>> *Jun Ouyang* >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 17:36 Xuanwo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, all opendal community members >>> > >>> > I'm thinking about hosting discourse as an alternative way for mailing >>> > list. >>> > >>> > Discourse has a feature called mailing list mode. After enabling this >>> > feature, we will sync every post between our mailling list and discourse. >>> > >>> > - Users can create/reply to posts created in discourse via email. >>> > - Users can create/reply to posts send by email in discourse. >>> > - Users can search all posts in discourse. >>> > >>> > By adding this new alternative, I can see the following benefits: >>> > >>> > - All discussion still happen and archived on mailing list (here). >>> > - Users like mailing list can still uses mailing list without any change. >>> > - Users like forums can use discourse instead. >>> > - Users don't need to subscribe the email list first before asking >>> > questions. >>> > - Markdown support, Full-text search support, better UI/UX... >>> > >>> > What do you think? Do you want this alternative? >>> > >>> > Xuanwo >>> > > > -- > Xuanwo -- Xuanwo
