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

[Kyle <kyle free2 ml>]

Didier Spaier said:
> Debian would be no more involved than gnome currently is, just kindly providing
> the list hosting as gnome does with the current list. Hint: I am not a gnome
> user either.


OK I think I understand now. Debian will only provide the hosting for 
the list. Thanks much for the explanation. This is good, although for a 
very long time I actually thought, as others have over the years, that 
Orca was in fact a subproject of GNOME. But this does make sense, and 
Debian, while I don't personally use it, is probably one of the best 
platforms for hosting an alternative email list infrastructure, that is 
of course assuming some problems with discourse via email can't be 
resolved in a trivial way. From what I have read though, it looks as 
though many of the problems may be fixable, but I'm with Joanie, Orca's 
lead developer, and will migrate, or be willing to be migrated, to 
whoever hosts this list going forward, whether it's hosted on Debian's 
Mailman platform, GNOME's Discourse, whatever. Just as long as I still 
can discuss things with the community or get Joanie to take a look at 
and hopefully fix a bug I find, but Orca has no bugs, just sayin' LOL.

~Kyle