More information on Fedora use experience, the graphs are impressive for those who think it's important to keep people in KDE
https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html Jonathan On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 18:32, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ > > I went to a talk at the Embedded Linux Summit about how Fedora moved to use > Discourse. Similar to the discussion of moving away from IRC we had last > year I see people moving away from mailing lists and new contributors not > wanting to get into them. Our KDE Forums also look quite old school. In > Fedora they moved to Discourse and mailing lists and forums and saw a marked > increase in engagement. > > I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto Discourse and > at the same time forum.kde.org could move to this more modern software. It > might also help cover Boud's use case of a user support method for people > with queries before the report a bug. > > More coverage on last week's LWN > https://lwn.net/Articles/768483/ > > Discussing it in person it was pointed out that we do already use > Phabricator Workboards for much discussion and it might well overlap > there, although I don't think that would be any more of an issue than > mailing lists overlapping. > > Jonathan
