Re: [Evolution] What do I do now? V2

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 08:19 +0800, Luigi Cantoni via evolution-list
wrote:
> Many people have contributed their ideas as to how to move forward so
> I
> hope there is enough now suggested so that we can do that.
>
> Can I ask the Moderators and those that contribute a lot to this list
> to decide where we migrate to before they shut us down.
> I for one don't what to be left hanging and will happily "follow the
> leaders".

I've contacted the other moderators to see if we can reach a consensus
on this, but have yet to hear back from them. We'll certainly inform
the list if we have something to say.

At the moment, my impression is that everyone is waiting for someone
else to take a decision, and time is passing by. Clearly the moderators
can't simply dictate what's going to happen. As things stand, it
appears to be inevitable that the current list will be discontinued and
that Evolution support will be provided on Discourse, no matter what
any of us think. Therefore the temptation to set up a new list
independent of gnome.org has to be weighed against the probable
fragmentation of the community, which would not be ideal. However it's
not out of the question.

One thing I can say is that I would not take on the responsibility of
managing a new list on my own. Moderating the current list is not a
particularly onerous task because much of the infrastructure is
provided by Gnome and we interact with it using a Mailman web page.
Also, it's shared among three people. However anyone who proposes a new
list should be willing to take on the task of administering it. A
Mailman system would probably be easiest, but it would need to be set
up and populated i.e. users would have to go through the individual
registration system since as Milan pointed out we probably can't simply
import the current membership automatically.

Cheers

poc