Re: Testing Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Marco Möller
On 14.04.20 16:01, Marco Möller wrote: (...) If Discourse could be configured towards these ideas, then it would be a win for the communication (...) Following the discussion, having investigated more how discourse actually can be used, and also having received and read helpful answers on

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 03:40:40PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 08:56 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > The point of the trust levels is to distribute the moderation. Whatever > > metric we come up with, it will involve a certain amount of actually > > using the site, and engaging

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Karsten Merker writes: > I don't agree with your assessment that there has been hostility against > Neil. There has been criticism - sometimes strongly worded criticism > that one might perhaps call hostility - against replacing our > mailinglists by something that quite a number of people in

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:50 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:12:21AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > Do we have to start by making it a mandatory switch? I don't feel consensus > > to > > move to discourse will be impossible in the long term but it's normal

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Felix Lechner
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:12 PM wrote: > > Wow, just wow! I don't suppose you want to quote all of our off-list > correspondence? (I don't even remember all of it, but ... wow!) Again, it is all fake. There was no correspondence. I never wrote to this person.

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
I'm sure I should not have responded to him (Felix) at all, but have learned my lesson (at least, I hope so). On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 03:06:48 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 02:38:43 PM Felix Lechner wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:09 AM wrote: > > > > I

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 02:38:43 PM Felix Lechner wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:09 AM wrote: > > > I think far better than moderation is learning. And that's what we're > > > doing now... no? > > > > Thank you! > > That response is disingenuous. rhkra...@gmail.com just threatened me

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:09 AM wrote: > > > I think far better than moderation is learning. And that's what we're doing > > now... no? > > Thank you! That response is disingenuous. rhkra...@gmail.com just threatened me off-list: "You'd like to have somebody out in the world angry [?]"

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 02:12:21 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > I read it as "oh what was that old thing on the internet ..." and took > it that you were trying to think of "Godwin's Law", but couldn't come up > with the name in the midst of writing the email. That is exactly right -- getting old

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/15/20 11:06 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 01:27:01 PM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: Was this message moderated? This author should be banned. I think far better than moderation is learning. And that's

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/15/20 10:02 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I sincerely apologize to anybody I offended. See (or don't see) below. On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:49:56 AM Holger Levsen wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:22:29AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: This must be one of those days when I feel

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 15, 2020, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I sincerely apologize to anybody I offended. See (or don't see) below. > [...] > I sincerely apologize! I never intended my comment to express any > approval of [...]. I read it as "oh what was that old thing on the internet ..." and took it that you

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 01:27:01 PM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > Was this message moderated? This author should be banned. > > I think far better than moderation is learning. And that's what we're doing > now... no? Thank you!

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:06 AM wrote: > > > > > > To me, the idea of bringing up Hitler in a conversation is crazy / > > > humorous, > > > even though his actions are

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
writes: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: >> If there is sufficient pushback, I'll delete the instance, move on with >> my life, and conclude that no one in Debian can possibly try and >> innovate or do new things unless it is either: >> * 100% optional for people,

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Eldon Koyle
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 5:48 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:22:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > Would you be willing to list out which points it is from the given > > "cons" category which you see as positives? > > > The point of this Discourse instance is to try and

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:06 AM wrote: > > > > To me, the idea of bringing up Hitler in a conversation is crazy / humorous, > > even though his actions are far from humorous. > > Was this message moderated? This author

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:06 AM wrote: > > To me, the idea of bringing up Hitler in a conversation is crazy / humorous, > even though his actions are far from humorous. Was this message moderated? This author should be banned. May Hitler's name be obliterated. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 01:02:53PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I sincerely apologize to anybody I offended. See (or don't see) below. [...] > I sincerely apologize! I never intended my comment to express any approval > of > Hitler or a comparison of systemd to Hitler. Happens. It's

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 01:02:53PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I sincerely apologize to anybody I offended. See (or don't see) below. [...] thanks. > (I probably dug myself in deeper :-( nah, I dont think so. You made some mistake and apologized, so at least I will be glad to move on.

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
I sincerely apologize to anybody I offended. See (or don't see) below. On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:49:56 AM Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:22:29AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > This must be one of those days when I feel the need to respond to more > > emails than I

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 03:49:56PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:22:29AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > > (2) maybe bringing systemd into a discussion is (should be considered) > > something just as disrepectful (harmful) as bringing Hitler into a > >

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:22:29AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > This must be one of those days when I feel the need to respond to more emails > than I usually do. but why? > (2) maybe bringing systemd into a discussion is (should be considered) > something just as disrepectful (harmful)

Re: "From" at beginning of line gets escaped (was: Re: Testing Discourse for Debian)

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
The following is the text of an email that got generated as I tried to make a comment on the bug report you filed. I'm not sure how soon the comment might appear on the bug report, so I decided to add it here as a reply. I guess I should add one thing, that I presume the people who deal with

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Felix Lechner
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:16 AM Brian Gupta wrote: > > How do you feel about making discourse.debian.org ... available as > an alternative for new lists? [We] can have another discussion later > about migrating existing lists. Yay, thanks for speaking up for a compromise!

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Brian, On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:12:21AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > Do we have to start by making it a mandatory switch? I don't feel consensus to > move to discourse will be impossible in the long term but it's normal for > human > beings to resist change, especially during a time of

"From" at beginning of line gets escaped (was: Re: Testing Discourse for Debian)

2020-04-15 Thread Ansgar
On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 20:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > as we discuss about proper quoting, I would like to take the opportunity > of Ansgar's email to note that each time a line starts with "From" in a > plain text email, something in the pipeline that delivers emails (at > least to me)

Mandatory Communication Methods was: Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 10:12:21 AM EDT Brian Gupta wrote: ... > Do we have to start by making it a mandatory switch? I don't feel consensus > to move to discourse will be impossible in the long term but it's normal > for human beings to resist change, especially during a time of otherwise >

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
This must be one of those days when I feel the need to respond to more emails than I usually do. On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 08:14:41 AM The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-04-15 at 07:45, Neil McGovern wrote: > > If there is sufficient pushback, I'll delete the instance, move on > > with my life,

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
I reordered the quoted paragraphs to make it more consistent with bottom posting. On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 07:24:03 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:47:06PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > No, but it is required for things like knowing which posts in a topic is > popular, so

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:48 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:22:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > Would you be willing to list out which points it is from the given > > "cons" category which you see as positives? > > > > I'd really rather not at this stage, as I'm

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, April 15, 2020 03:56:28 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > Could you explain this please? I feel that having a notification (which > only appears for people who regularly interact with the site) that > someone is new to the community to be useful. I am probably going to say more about this

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Ansgar
On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 08:56 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > The point of the trust levels is to distribute the moderation. Whatever > metric we come up with, it will involve a certain amount of actually > using the site, and engaging with the community. Looking at some topics on meta.discourse.org,

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Martin
On 2020-04-15 11:21, Neil McGovern wrote: > Yes. You can subscribe to categories, topics and tags (or combinations > of them). For example, if you only ever care about m68k, you could watch > #m68k and get a notification email for that across all categories. This is pretty nice! Thank you! (Also

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-04-15 at 07:45, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:22:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Would you be willing to list out which points it is from the given >> "cons" category which you see as positives? > > I'd really rather not at this stage, as I'm already seemingly

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: [...] > If there is sufficient pushback, I'll delete the instance, move on with > my life, and conclude that no one in Debian can possibly try and > innovate or do new things unless it is either: > * 100% optional for people, or > *

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:22:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Would you be willing to list out which points it is from the given > "cons" category which you see as positives? > I'd really rather not at this stage, as I'm already seemingly having to spend time talking about how Discourse is set

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:47:06PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > I'm not concerned about marking messages read after some time and > keeping the view time in ephermal storage for that. But that's not > what Discourse does: as described elsewhere it stores all read times > persistently on the server;

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-04-15 at 04:05, Neil McGovern wrote: > I'm just going to correct things that are factually incorrect here, > rather than label them as pros/cons. I feel a number of things you > have put in the cons column are advantages. I am surprised. Reviewing Ihor's post after Sam's response, with

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:47:06PM +0200, Ansgar a écrit : > > >From my tries with Discourse, it just silently stripped all quotes out > from the reply. Hello everybody, as we discuss about proper quoting, I would like to take the opportunity of Ansgar's email to note that each time a line

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Ansgar
On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 11:21 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:08:45AM +0200, Martin wrote: > > On 2020-04-15 08:56, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > Could I point out that the email program you wrote this message > > > in is > > > doing the same? > > > > Could you elaborate on

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:08:45AM +0200, Martin wrote: > On 2020-04-15 08:56, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Could I point out that the email program you wrote this message in is > > doing the same? > > Could you elaborate on that? Ansgar seems to use > "User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.1-1" > (While I'm

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Martin
On 2020-04-15 08:56, Neil McGovern wrote: > Could I point out that the email program you wrote this message in is > doing the same? Could you elaborate on that? Ansgar seems to use "User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.1-1" (While I'm using mutt.) How do such UAs track reading behaviour? > Quoting does

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Ansgar, To start with, I want to say that I found your mail to be quite frustrating. I feel it may have been more constructive to phrase concerns as questions, rather than stating them as facts, and ascribing motivations or inferances which simply aren't correct. That said, I'll try and reply

Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian

2020-04-15 Thread Neil McGovern
I'm just going to correct things that are factually incorrect here, rather than label them as pros/cons. I feel a number of things you have put in the cons column are advantages. On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:31:56PM -0700, Ihor Antonov wrote: > - Not 100% GPL - some javascript scripts loaded into