On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 02:41 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 02:24 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 22:08 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 17:36 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > I thought I would put together some of my thoughts about using > > > > Discourse that I have gained in just a day of using it. A day > > > > is not > > > > very long and I may not have fully understood everything - but > > > > there > > > > again, I am, apparently, the top poster on the topic with most > > > > replies > > > > in the Application category on Gnome Discourse! > > > > > > Well said. I agree with all of this. > > > > > > > And it's clear from posts on the forum that they really don't want > > us > > there on any terms other than being well behaved, compliant members > > of > > the Gnome community. > > > > Sad, but I think the jury has come to their decision. > > > > I hope that Gnome is happy to have destroyed a vibrant, helpful > support > community. For what? Because they can't be arsed to deal with spam; > because we didn't fit in with their vision of how support should be > provided; because we aren't good Gnome citizens. > > We were sold a pig-in-a-poke. This is what one of the admins of the > forum said: > > Yes: Discourse is not a good mailing list software. It’s > predicated > on the idea that you can use email to interact with it, but it’s > not > the main interaction model. Tools like moderation and community > management are based on interacting through the web UI. Can > Discourse be fixed? Of course: it’s software, it can do anything. > Plus, it’s open source software, so it can be fixed by anybody. If > people are willing to work on it, I’m sure it’s going to improve > that particular side, and maybe it’ll be a good replacement for > mailman. Are GNOME admins going to do that? No, I don’t think they > will. > > The "configure once and then just use email" was a lie. > > To continue the Douglas Adams quotes: > > "So long and thanks for all the fish". > > Pete
This has been my experience with GNOME decision makers in other areas as well. Failure to engage, diminution of concerns and then moving on with the tired refrain of it's open source so your could fix it yourself, and then cycling back to failure to engage. "Resistance is useless!" _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
