On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:50:30 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Many (perhaps all) of the gnome.org mailing lsits are being moved to > Discourse. This apparently is a decision made by the Gnome Foundation > and has caused a good deal of consternation on at least some of said > lists. I speak mainly for the Evolution list but I think the same is > true on at least some others. Some of the discussion can be seen at: > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-October/thread.html > > There are two main points of contention: > > 1) Most members of these lists were not aware of the coming change > until very recently. I am a moderator of the Evolution list and knew > nothing about it before others. > > 2) In some ways many of us consider the Discourse platform to be > significantly inferior to a mailing list. It does offer a mailing list > interface but in several respects it is inadequate. I refer you to > this post which goes into some detail: > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-October/msg00276.html > > It appears that the gnome.org is hosted by RedHat, which is a member > of the Gnome Foundation. That being the case, I would like to know if > there is any danger (I use the word advisedly) of this list and others > in the Fedora ecosphere suffering the same fate. Is this another step of emulating mac/apple behavior? I'm not familiar enough with the mac ecosystem to know. Alternatively, this might be meant to cater to people using smart phones. I'm not sure why that would be relevant to an OS that doesn't run on phones, but younger people who grew up with smart phones are tethered to them, and use them as their base for evaluation of what is worthwhile or not. Perhaps someone at Gnome surmises that they can get more participation in that demographic by doing this? A few years ago when Discourse was first introduced to Fedora, I tried it. It didn't turn my crank, so I am probably one of those people who would stop actively participating, as mentioned in your second link above, if mailing lists were to disappear. But perhaps lots of new people would welcome the change, participate more, and the net change would be a benefit to fedora. Is there lots of participation on the discourse platform that already exists? Does it eclipse the participation on the mailing lists? I imagine that the two communities are pretty much disjoint, with people expressing their preferred method of communication by which one they participate in. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
