On Ma, 14 apr 20, 09:49:16, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-14, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > To me "may or may not be a replacemnt" and "would be better of" are > > very far away from "I propose to replace X with Y". > > It is also rather distant from "Nobody is proposing replacing > debian-user with Discourse," so I guess we're kind of even, though I > think my interpretation is closer to the truth than your flat and > unequivocal dismissal. Let's agree to disagree on this, see below on why. > I'm sorry, but it does follow from Neil's > comments that replacing debian-user by Discourse is under consideration > (as he *specified* debian-user as a *particular list* he believes would > benefit from the shift). Debian's lists are under the responsibility of the Listmaster Team[1] and so far they haven't expressed any opinion on this. Even if some other Debian Member would explicitly advance a proposal to change something regarding Debian's lists they are in charge to approve and implement (and no, they can't be forced to do this, because they are volunteers). What *may* happen: If (and only if) Discourse is popular enough it could be promoted to an official channel (moved from debian.net to debian.org), most likely operated by a completely different team than the Listmasters. As we have seen with shapado/ask.debian.net this might *never* happen. If (and only if) *some* mailing list is not useful anymore it could be disabled by the Listmaster Team (regardless of the popularity of some other official channel). With 3000+ subscribers I don't see this happening for debian-user anytime soon. If it's going to see any significant decline in use it will probably be correlated to general decline in e-mail use. I'm not aware of any list on lists.debian.org with as many subscribers as debian-user, only debian-devel comes close with 2500+ subscribers. Do note that some lists on lists.debian.org have less than 100 subscribers. [1] I was under the impression they are delegated as per Debian's Constitution, though I can't find any proof of that now. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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