On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 09:20 -0400, William Oliver wrote: > I strongly suspect that the reason this change is being made is not for > some nefarious "control" reason or some bad goal. I suspect that its > about making it easier for whoever is volunteering to keep this stuff > going.
Hi, if so, why was it possible to sent the announcement to the mailing lists at 20 Oct 2022, but impossible to do it earlier, to give the communities a chance to run their own lists? The moderators and subscribers of the lists hosted by GNOME are volunteers, too. "They" gave us less than 2 weeks to find a solution that satisfies another part of the communities. The non-profit GNOME Foundation is not a small project by a few coders, it is a relatively huge foundation. All support forums of proprietary software, let alone FLOSS software, that I know, stay away from gamification, "an allegedly populist idea that actually benefits corporate interests over those of ordinary people" [1]. GNOME is the only exception that I know, that only provides support by Discourse. I've seen that FreeBSD has a Discourse forum, too, but they continue with all kinds of other support channels. FreeBSD has a way better reason to discontinue Mailman, since it's more or less impossible to port Mailman 3 to a FreeBSD servers, hence they simply migrated to another mailing list software. You might be right, but your guess isn't evident. It's hard to believe that you are right. I have got valid doubts. Regards, Ralf [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification#Criticism _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
