Re: Migration of dia-list to GNOME Discourse instance

[Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:25:40 +0200
Olav Vitters via dia-list <dia-list gnome org> wrote:

> Dear subscribers,
>
> Please cc me on replies.
>
> We've set up https://discourse.gnome.org a year and a half ago, as
> part of an attempt at making the GTK mailing list more friendly to
> newcomers. 

I can't imagine anything friendlier than email. It comes to you, you
read it, you reply. No need to join yet another third party, no need to
read and agree to yet another legal contract, many of which have "take
your house" indemnification clauses.

> This experiment seems to have proven itself well enough,
> and has since expanded to other territories as well. As such, we
> believe it is time to make the same switch for most of our mailing
> lists.

I disagree.

> This means that this mailing list will be archived in favour of
> continued discussion at GNOME's Discourse instance. No need to worry
> that this will mess with your workflow: it is still possible to get
> notifications by email by subscribing to the appropriate tags and/or
> posts. You can also still reply by e-mail if you prefer. Just like
> before, it's also possible to receive a general weekly digest.

Are there complete, detailed instructions on how to do so? And to what
legalese must I agree in order to join GNOME's Discourse?

> The proposed closure of this mailing list will be on: Oct 30th, 2020

I propose you don't do it.
 
> As a subscriber of this mailing list please create an account on
> https://discourse.gnome.org/. It's unfortunately not possible to
> automatically migrate the existing subscribers to Discourse. In case
> you wonder what will happen to the current mailing list after the
> closure date: the archives will remain public though you won't be
> able to subscribe or send emails to the current list.
>
> For dia-list the new discussions would take place in the Applications
> category on Discourse using the 'dia' tag. Unfortunately creating a
> new thread with a dia tag is not possible at this time, the following
> link can be used:

I see a lot of use of the word "unfortunately."

SteveT

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