On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:06 AM Ben Rosser <rosser....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:39 AM Gerald B. Cox <gb...@bzb.us> wrote: > > But RSS really isn't the point of this thread. My point is that Fedora > should move to Discourse. It's a much better solution for > > discussion. We should publish a timeline and just do it. > > Fedora should not "just do it" because "it's a much better solution". > If you want Fedora to consider moving to Discourse over email, it > would be nice to see an analysis like: > > 1) What are the pros and cons? Is Discourse's mailing list mode an > acceptable interface for people who prefer maillng lists and wouldn't > want to interact with Discourse itself? > > 2) What's the migration strategy look like? Can users on the mailing > lists be automatically added to the relevant discourse lists? > > 3) Will there be a transition period where the old list addresses > continue to work? Can they be maintained in perpetuity, or at least > aliased to the right thing? > > I'm not saying *you* need to answer these questions, but I think > *someone* should before proposing to move all of Fedora's mailing list > infrastructure to Discourse. We would request answers to similar > questions for a system-wide change proposal, and I think generally > similar policies should be applied when considering major changes to > the distribution's infrastructure. And the mailing lists are > definitely an important part of the distribution's infrastructure. > Did you checkout the Fedora Discourse site and read the Foreman analysis that Matt provided? We're not talking about re-inventing the wheel here... nor are we the first organization that have done this. I'm sure there are lots of lessons learned available to review - and I would expect that the Fedora team that is working on Discourse now is totally aware of this.
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