Re: [orca-list] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

[Maksym Bilak <bmiv ukr net>]

I totally agree.
I had problems with freelists.org, I was not receiving messages. But 
after I informed the administration of freelists.org as well as my email 
provider about it, the problem disappeared.

20.10.22 16:45, Didier Spaier via orca-list пише:
> I opened an account on DISCOURSE, wrote a test message and enabled the mailing
> list mode. I will see how that goes.
>
> If we have to open another mailing list I'd suggest freelists.org to host it.
>
> It allows do do all settings via email. Using a web UI is necessary only once
> per list to confirm a subscription , which I assume most of the many blind users
> of this list find more convenient than a forum-like UI. Though I be sighted I
> prefer a real mailing list as well.
>
> Cheers
> Didier
>
> Le 20/10/2022 à 11:25, Nimer Jaber via orca-list a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > As I doubt I will spend much time on Discourse or any other web forum, and as I
> > am losing the convenience of email for the intent behind this list, I'd like to
> > see if others feel the same way, and whether there is any interest in creating a
> > list on another provider such as Google groups. It saddens me that the needs and
> > desires of our community weren't considered, and feedback wasn't sought before a
> > decision like this was forced on us, but we as a community could band around
> > another list, if people are interested and think it would see some use.
> > Otherwise, if people are content with the new Discourse, then please disregard
> > this message.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 4:13 AM Andrea Veri <av gnome org <mailto:av gnome org>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >      Hi,
> >
> >      As we have been communicating during the past few months GNOME's Mailman
> >      platform is being decommissioned (python2 deprecation, major burden in
> >      managing lists spam). The deadline is currently set to the end of October
> >      2022. Mailing list subscribers are invited to migrate to GNOME's Discourse
> >      instance [1]. Neil made sure [2] to create a set of tags you can re-use to
> >      initiate a new topic in the new platform, if a tag is missing please reach
> >      out to me directly.
> >
> >      Jehan (from the GIMP Team) kindly provided some instructions you can follow
> >      [3] in order to safely migrate your reading workflow to Discourse. The new
> >      platform supports several login methods including your GNOME Account and
> >      other major OpenID providers.
> >
> >      After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will remain alive
> >      in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used behind an
> >      alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup but on Discourse
> >      instead.
> >
> >      Thanks,
> >
> >      P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-lies, the
> >      deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two depending how
> >      soon those changes will be made available in DL codebase
> >
> >      [1] https://discourse.gnome.org <https://discourse.gnome.org>
> >      [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html 
> > <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html>
> >      [3] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/welcome-to-gimp-forum-on-gnome-discourse/11534/5 
> > <https://discourse.gnome.org/t/welcome-to-gimp-forum-on-gnome-discourse/11534/5>
> >
> >      --
> >      Cheers,
> >      Andrea
> >
> >      Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
> >      GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> >      Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> >      GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
> >
> >      Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it <https://www.dragonsreach.it>
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> >      Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> >      <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca>
> >      Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> >      <https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/>
> >      GNOME Universal Access guide:
> >      https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> >      <https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best,
> >
> > Nimer Jaber
> >
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> >
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> >
> > Thank you, and have a great day!
> >
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