Hi Denis, > On 2 Jun 2017, at 08:59, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Vincent, > Last time I managed to follow the proposal to move to Discourse, the goal > wasn’t to completely drop the mailing lists and to just have a new tool that > is well synchronized, allowing usage of both together and seamlessly… Did I > miss an important vote ?
You probably read the discussion a bit quickly because it’s never been the goal to have both. That would be a pure nightmare to have both and I don’t even know how it could be implemented. What we talked about was, only for search reasons, to try to have forum posts sent to the list so that markmail can have forum posts. This is not working so well ATM, I need to check it out, but IMO it’s not a huge issue. It’s always been a nice-to-have feature only. The other thing we discussed was that we would try to configure discourse to allow replying by mail. I’m still trying to configure this with XWiki SAS infra but they’re very slow to make any progress on this and it’s not a blocker for the user forum (could be for the devs forum if we decide to move it too to discourse but that’s not the case ATM). > I am frightened that you are proposing this while I don’t yet had the time to > see the forum! We’re not going to wait for all users to try the forum. This will just not happen ever. We’ve tested discourse enough to know it’s good and usable. We need to use it fully now. > Don’t you fear to lose many subscribers ? No I’m not worried at all. This is a support channel. Anyone needing free help will find ways to move to the forum. It’s easy and documented in several places. > Last time I look at the forum, there was no account synchronization with > xwiki.org. Did that change ? Nope. You need to either create an account on the forum or use you github account to sign in. > Sorry if my questions look stupid, but the move was not so clear to me. > Regards, Thanks -Vincent > -- > Denis Gervalle > SOFTEC sa - CEO > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:14, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Now that our forum is working well I’d like to propose to make the users list > readonly and move all users to the forum. > > So the plan I’m proposing is: > * On Monday, make the users list readonly > * Send a last message on it, inviting users to move to the forum > > Note that we’ve already been putting a notice to all messages sent on the > users lists inviting users to move to the forum and this has been running for > 2 weeks already. > > My feeling is that we need to finalize the move now and prevent too much > scattering of user posts both on the users list and on the forum and have > them all on the forum ASAP. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent
