Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

apparently GitHub has discussions now. it's still in beta, but you can specifically request it if you want it if you contact support, I think e.g., https://github.com/zeit/next.js/discussions I'm interested to know what we think about this and how t

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

FYI, WikiMedia are currently looking at moving from mailing lists to Discourse and have done a comprehensive fit/gap analysis. Here's their results, as current as 7 March 2020. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discourse Looks like email integration is still a problem, and specifically the prob

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

The Discourse development team are always very helpful, and friendly. http://meta.discourse.org I am sure they would help CouchDB comply with Apache rules, if there are any technical issues. Once it has been discussed with Apache of course. Discourse is excellent software. Thoughtfully design

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

I got your previous message just moments before I sent this one, and read it afterwards. I had no idea there was so many specs on something like this, but it makes sense there are. Kindest Regards, Bill Stephenson > On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Joan Touzet wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > On 2

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

Hi Bill, On 2020-03-12 13:28, Bill Stephenson wrote: I’ve recently pointed a few people on Reddit to this mailing list who were asking questions there. A forum would probably be a good thing to have. I’m not familiar with Discourse but it looks pretty simple to spin up a digital ocean vps.

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

I’ve recently pointed a few people on Reddit to this mailing list who were asking questions there. A forum would probably be a good thing to have. I’m not familiar with Discourse but it looks pretty simple to spin up a digital ocean vps.

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

Hi Garren, thanks for thinking ahead on this one. On 2020-03-12 10:32, Garren Smith wrote: Hi All, The CouchDB slack channel has been a real success with lots of people asking for help and getting involved. The main issue is that it is not searchable so we often get people asking the same quest

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

Ah, fair point! On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:25 AM Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > > > > On 12. Mar 2020, at 16:21, Paul Davis wrote: > > > > I'm not against anything of that nature, but if memory serves the > > email lists are dictated by ASF policy. > > If you remember when we did the GitHub transition,

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

> On 12. Mar 2020, at 16:21, Paul Davis wrote: > > I'm not against anything of that nature, but if memory serves the > email lists are dictated by ASF policy. If you remember when we did the GitHub transition, as long as we can make sure messages end up on a mailing list, we should be fine wr

Re: [DISCUSS] moving email lists to Discourse

I'm not against anything of that nature, but if memory serves the email lists are dictated by ASF policy. On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:32 AM Garren Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > The CouchDB slack channel has been a real success with lots of people > asking for help and getting involved. The main issu