Re: Moving from mailing lists to Discourse

[Eric Williams <ericwill redhat com>]

One benefit I find to mailing lists is that they are search engine 
indexed, meaning when I google a warning or assertion error I often get 
pointed to a mailing list thread that discusses the issue I am trying to 
fix.

Being able to find such discussions and then follow them in thread 
format is very valuable and saves quite a bit of time. I haven't used 
Discourse so I don't know what the state of such a workflow is -- 
apologies in advance if this use-case is a non-issue.

Eric

On 2/6/19 6:46 AM, Emmanuele Bassi via gtk-list wrote:
> [Cross-posted to various relevant mailing lists; please, reply to 
> gtk-devel-list]
>
> As part of an attempt at making GTK more friendly to newcomers, I and 
> other core developers were thinking of moving the mailing lists from the 
> current mailman installation to Discourse:
>
> https://discourse.org/
>
> Possibly still hosted on GNOME infrastructure, depending on the 
> requirements for our sysadmins.
>
> The GTK project would have various sub-topics, mostly around development 
> with and of GTK. Having a better archive search, a better moderation 
> system, and a decent web UI are the major selling points for switching 
> to Discourse. The fact that the project is also open source is neatly 
> aligned with our values.
>
> Are there any objections? Did somebody already try out Discourse and has 
> opinions about it that they want to share with the community?
>
> Ciao,
>   Emmanuele.
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