On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > New status as of 15 May 2017: > > * Categories created, see https://discourse.xwiki.org/ > * Still missing ability to reply by mail (waiting for Kevin on this). > Since I have no idea when this can be implemented, I think we shouldn’t > block on this to get started > * I’ve created a discourse user with an email of [email protected] so that > we can continue archiving everything posted on discourse. > > In short we’re ready to start using discourse.xwiki.org. > > So what I propose now is that: > > 1) I document it on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ > MailingLists. I’ll also rename the page to http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/ > bin/view/Community/Discuss (with a redirect). > 2) I send a mail to users & devs @xwiki.org to announce the new forum. > 3) After 1-2 days, I’ll configure the users @ xwiki.org mailing list to > reject all posts with a message explaining the move to the forum. > > Ok with everyone? > +1 Thanks, Caty > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > On 28 Apr 2017, at 15:43, 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. > > > > 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 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. > > > > 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 > >> > > > >
