On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would really like to still be able to use 1 tool, i.e. currently the mail
> client, to read the mails for either devs or users. Sure, answering to
> users should be done on discourse, but I would not like to have to juggle
> yet another service.

This does not have much to do with the users mailing list. As I
explained to you on IRC you can very well receive all discourse
messages by mail if you want which is exactly what I do (I never go to
forum.xwiki.org directly, only from some mail I received).

>
> I understand that what you describe seems like a bug. Did we try to report
> it to discourse? On a quick google I'm unable to find such a behavior
> described. We could try reporting it otherwise.
>
> P.S.: I have re-enabled the "Enable mailing list mode" option to the
> discourse mailman user. Will watch it to see when/if it gets disabled again.
>
> Thanks,
> Eduard
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On 22 Jun 2017, at 14:35, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> On 22 Jun 2017, at 14:09, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Guys, I thought we were going to make the users list read-only, not
>> disable
>> >> it completely. This is now what was discussed, AFAIK.
>> >
>> > Where did you see that? At least that’s not my proposal. My proposal is
>> to make it read only.
>> >
>> >> Right now, I haven't received a mail on the users list since 12th of
>> June.
>> >
>> > I haven’t made it readonly yet so I don’t know if it’s normal or not.
>>
>> FTR just noticed 2 users have contacted me telling me they cannot post to
>> the user list anymore. So someone must have changed something on the user
>> list, but it’s not me :)
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>> >
>> >> AFAIR, a proposed flow was to receive mails of the discussions and, if
>> you
>> >> want to reply, you'd follow the reply link in the mail an open the
>> >> discourse browser window.
>> >>
>> >> So, only discourse could be able to publish to the list, all other list
>> >> users would get rejected.
>> >
>> > The proposal was:
>> > * Make the list readonly except for a given discourse user who’d have
>> [email protected] as its email so that we can still archive discussions done
>> with discourse on markmail, nabble, etc.
>> >
>> > However:
>> > * I have configured a user having [email protected] as its email and in
>> “mailing list mode” but after it sends its first mail, the “mailing list
>> mode” is automatically disabled and I don’t know why.
>> >
>> > Conclusion so far:
>> > * We need to make the list readonly. I’ll do this next week when I find
>> some time.
>> > * I don’t know how to fix the issue listed above
>> > * In any case I don’t think it’s that important that we don’t archive
>> discourse discussions on markmail so I’m fine with dropping this part.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > -Vincent
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Eduard
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 2 Jun 2017, at 19:50, Marius Dumitru Florea <
>> >>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 2:14 AM, 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.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> It's a small thing but very annoying: is there a way to reply in-line?
>> >>> When
>> >>>> the post you want to reply to is long it's pretty hard to keep
>> context if
>> >>>> you can't reply in-line. The alternative is to copy and quote the part
>> >>> that
>> >>>> you are referring to, but it's not that nice.
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes it’s possible and very easy to do: simply select the text you wish
>> to
>> >>> reply to and you’ll see the option to reply to it :)
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks
>> >>> -Vincent
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks,
>> >>>> Marius
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 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
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >
>>
>>



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Thomas Mortagne

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