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

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

Lots of people are using groups.io these days, you can do Email or a
web interface, so creating a list there would be nice.  I am sure most
people on this list would subscribe right away.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:25:40 -0400,
Nimer Jaber via orca-list wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> As I doubt I will spend much time on Discourse or any other web forum, and
> as I am losing the convenience of email for the intent behind this list,
> I'd like to see if others feel the same way, and whether there is any
> interest in creating a list on another provider such as Google groups. It
> saddens me that the needs and desires of our community weren't considered,
> and feedback wasn't sought before a decision like this was forced on us,
> but we as a community could band around another list, if people are
> interested and think it would see some use. Otherwise, if people are
> content with the new Discourse, then please disregard this message.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 4:13 AM Andrea Veri <av gnome org> 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
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Andrea
> >
> > Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
> > GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> > Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
> >
> > Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it
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> > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
>
>
> -- 
> Best,
>
> Nimer Jaber
>
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> Thank you, and have a great day!
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