Re: [Evolution] Discourse and the situation for Mailman lists hosted by Gnome.org

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 16:40 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 15:35 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > I have worked with a number of professional organizations that
> > > are
> > > maintained primarily by volunteer staff and effort.  The "powers
> > > that
> > > be" are usually people who are doing a lot of work for free --
> > > even
> > > if
> > > the people at the very top are being paid a little.  Sometimes
> > > that's
> > > because they believe in a "cause," sometimes because they like
> > > being
> > > the expert at something, sometimes because they like being a
> > > useful
> > > part of an organization.   But whatever the gain, it's still for
> > > free.
> >
> > Except Gnome is a Foundation and it is supported by a large number
> > of
> > very large tech companies. Most of the infrastructure is provided
> > by
> > Redhat and they have a large presence on the Gnome Foundation
> > board.
>
> What I can't understand is that all the Fedora lists, some of which I
> am on, continue to be run via Mailman, and presumably by staff that
> work for RedHat. This doesn't look to me like a RedHat decision.

I've posted a question to the Fedora Users list:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users lists fedoraproject 
org/thread/XXRBCEM3UQSLPPITR5L27HRPER3HZZHM/

Note that the list also has a web interface (HyperKitty), which is
different from Discourse. Hooray for consistency.

poc