On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Status > ====== > > So I’ve progressed in this with Kevin (who’s an infra admin at XWiki SAS). > > We now have an instance ready. > > What’s left to do: > > * Configure reply by email. I’m currently trying to do that with Kevin. > The principle is that you receive mail from discourse and we set in > discourse a reply-to email address so that when you reply to the mail, it > goes to a mail inbox somewhere (some gmail account for example). Then > discourse is configured to check (using POP3, they don’t seem to support > IMAP ATM) that inbox and to process mails found in it and update the > topics. Note that even if we don’t configure this, users can still receive > emails for all posts but they will just need to click on the link to go the > webpage and answer. It’s not the end of the world either. > > * Decide on the migration path. See below > > * Decide if we migrate only users or also devs. FTM I suggest that we do > only users and see how it goes and if we’re happy we can decide to move > devs data too. > ok > > Migration Path > ============ > > I propose the following: > > * On a given date that we advertise on the users list, we configure this > list to be readonly and not allow more posts. We invite users to register > on our discourse instance and use that. > we can have a transitional period and not make it readonly immediate after the announcement. > * We don’t import our archives since it’s complex ( > https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-import-mbox-mailing-list-files/51233) > and there’s not a perfect mapping. We can always do that in the future if > someone really wants to work on that. > * We create a markmail user in our discourse instance and configure it to > receive all posts. We set its email address to be [email protected] and we > configure the users list to accept mail from our discourse instance. This > allows to keep having a place where we can search in all places by using > markmail. Incidentally this also means that nabble and gmane will continue > to archive our mails which is nice. > ok, because of the searching all part. Thanks, Caty > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > On 24 Feb 2017, at 12:18, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi devs, > > > > I’m proposing to vote for moving away from our users and devs mailing > list and instead to use the Discourse open source tool: > > > > * Home page: http://www.discourse.org/ > > * License: GPL v2 > > * FAQ: http://www.discourse.org/faq/ > > * Awesome feature list: http://www.discourse.org/about/ > > > > What is especially interesting for us: > > * It works with mailing lists (you can receive mails and send mails to > the forum). > > * Works as a forum. BTW if you want to see a real life instance, check > the gradle instance at https://discuss.gradle.org/ > > > > Nice things: > > * Works on mobile > > * Comprehensive API (would allow us to integrate it with xwiki.org) > > * Badges/user metrics > > > > So here’s my +1 to try it out and ask XWiki SAS if they could host an > instance. > > > > WDYT? Do you see any negative point (I don’t ATM)? :) > > > > Please cast your votes! > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > >
