Re: Debian presence on newer platforms
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 15352 March 1977, ansgar@debian.org wrote:
>
> > Do you think Debian should be more active to establish (official)
> > presence on newer platforms?
>
> For those that are free, sure.
>
> > In particular I also wonder if Debian should look at Matrix[1]: it is a
> > free and decentralized platform, and the UI (of Riot[2]) seems more
> > friendly than IRC clients.
>
> I think that doesn't need a DPL. Anyone who wants can do it. And setup
> (to speeak in irc terms) channels for the users to get in. And then it
> can go the usual way of "the more people use it, the more important it
> becomes".
>
> > Similar things also apply to mailing lists; there are solutions that
> > might be more accessible to some users (e.g. mailman3's web interface
> > which for example Fedora uses). Though I can't say much about those as
> > I haven't used them so far.
>
> While I agree that some "more modern" going way would be nice for lists,
> I don't think that is an easy task. Nor one where DPL can do much
> (unless listmasters need some resources that DPL can approve for such a
> change). Its up to the listmasters, though as far as i know, our current
> setup is anything but easily converted.
In my experience as a former mailman admin and listadmin mailman is a no-go.
Getting our feature set even nearly into mailman is impossible, takes years
and will just get us an unmaintainable thing. I don't want to ever run a
bigger mailman setup again.
Just my 2 cent
Alex - Debian Listmaster
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