> On 12. Mar 2020, at 16:21, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> 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 wrt the requirements.
Best
Jan
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>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:32 AM Garren Smith <gar...@apache.org> 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 questions over and over.
>> The user mailing list is great in that sense that if you have subscribed to
>> it you have a searchable list of questions and answers. However, it's
>> really not user-friendly and judging by the fact that it has very low user
>> participation I'm guessing most people prefer to use slack to ask questions.
>>
>> I've been really impressed with how the FoundationDB forum[1] and the rust
>> internal forum work [2]. I find them easy to use and really encourage
>> participation. I would like to propose that we move our user and dev
>> discussion to Discourse or a forum that works as well as Discourse. I think
>> that would make it really easy for users of CouchDB to look up answers to
>> questions and get involved in the development discussion.
>>
>> I haven't checked yet, but I'm sure we could get all discourse threads to
>> automatically email back to the user and dev mailing list so that we still
>> fulfill our Apache requirements.
>>
>> I know its a big step away from what we're used to with our mailing lists,
>> but I think it would definitely open up our community.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Garren
>>
>>
>> [1] https://forums.foundationdb.org/
>> [2] https://internals.rust-lang.org/
