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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 13:09 +0200, Andrea Veri 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
> [2]
> 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

I am a moderator of the Evolution list, and this is the first I've
heard of this. I think that 10 days notice of such a radical change is
not reasonable. Most people here, including myself, will have no idea
what this is about.

Personally, I detest web forums. If there is a well-supported mailing
list alternative, I will use that. However the link referenced above
look very much like a kludge and I doubt I'll be able to help list
users who may have problems with it, if in fact there is even a
continuing "moderator" role in this new system.

The Evolution list has been a useful resource for its user community
for many years. This unrequested change makes me sceptical about the
community's future. I hope I'm wrong.

poc