Hi Brian, On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:12:21AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > Do we have to start by making it a mandatory switch? I don't feel consensus to > move to discourse will be impossible in the long term but it's normal for human > beings to resist change, especially during a time of otherwise great stress. > I think we're miles away from making it a mandatory switch! In fact, I explictly stated this in my initial email: > What about the mailing lists? > This may or may not be a replacement for any particular list. I suspect > there are some thet would benefit greatly from having Discourse be the > primary interaction, and other places where this would be less suitable. > > Be specific! > Ok... I think debian-user, debian-vote and possibly debian-project would > be better off in Discourse. I think debian-devel-announce should stay as > an email list (for now). However, I am not suddenly proposing that we shut > those lists down. The aim of this exercise is to see if Discourse would > work well for us. The whole point of this is to evaluate if Discourse would work for Debian at all, rather than if it should be the primary communication platform. I think that discussion is very different. > How do you feel about making discourse.debian.org, and making it a fully > supported tool, that's fully backed up, and available as an alternative for new > lists? He can have another discussion later about migrating existing lists. > Personally, I think that would be fantastic, and the idea behind this initial call for testing is to determine if I should be spending my time, and aiming for a discourse.debian.org instance, or if there is no appetite for that. Neil --
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