On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 15352 March 1977, ans...@debian.org wrote: > > > Do you think Debian should be more active to establish (official) > > presence on newer platforms? > > For those that are free, sure. > > > In particular I also wonder if Debian should look at Matrix[1]: it is a > > free and decentralized platform, and the UI (of Riot[2]) seems more > > friendly than IRC clients. > > I think that doesn't need a DPL. Anyone who wants can do it. And setup > (to speeak in irc terms) channels for the users to get in. And then it > can go the usual way of "the more people use it, the more important it > becomes". > > > Similar things also apply to mailing lists; there are solutions that > > might be more accessible to some users (e.g. mailman3's web interface > > which for example Fedora uses). Though I can't say much about those as > > I haven't used them so far. > > While I agree that some "more modern" going way would be nice for lists, > I don't think that is an easy task. Nor one where DPL can do much > (unless listmasters need some resources that DPL can approve for such a > change). Its up to the listmasters, though as far as i know, our current > setup is anything but easily converted. In my experience as a former mailman admin and listadmin mailman is a no-go. Getting our feature set even nearly into mailman is impossible, takes years and will just get us an unmaintainable thing. I don't want to ever run a bigger mailman setup again.
Just my 2 cent Alex - Debian Listmaster
