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

[Steven D'Aprano <steve pearwood info>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 02:02:43PM -0400, Morten Welinder via gnumeric-list wrote:

> For Gnumeric specifically, that means use the "gnumeric" tag on the
> discourse server: https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/gnumeric
> I would personally have preferred to keep the mailing list, but since
> I am not the one doing the work that doesn't count for a hole lot.
> (And dealing with internet-exposed code based on the increasingly
> unmaintained python2 does sound a bit scary these days.)

The Python community is migrating from Mailman to Discourse, and it is 
not an improvement.

The Discourse web interface is gamified, with badges and achievements to 
unlock, and full of fake and insincere good cheer. And the email 
interface is buggy, unreliable, slow, and painful to use.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."


-- 
Steve