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

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

Will,

I believe you misread, the new platform is called Discourse and not Discord, the same features Mailman had can be found in Discourse as well but you get all the web ui and associated features on top. With little to no customization on categories/tags you want to follow you can then treat Discourse as a plain mailing list. There's no need to leave or look for another place to host the orca-list mailing list, although I won't force you to stay around but I'd appreciate if you could at least give Discourse a try.

Thanks!

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 1:45 PM Will Estes <westes575 gmail com> wrote:

Discord has extensive accessibility problems. Discord is heavy handed and arbitrary in removing accounts.  Discord doesn't have a publicly searchable archive, which the mailing list does, and the mailing list needs so that we can have a stored memory of solutions. Discord is proprietary, non-free software.

Discord is a terrible solution for the orca mailing list.

So yes, let's find something that would actually meet the needs of orca users.

On Thursday, 20 October 2022,  4:25 am -0700, Nimer Jaber via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:

> 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-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > 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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--
Will Estes
westes575 gmail com

--

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