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Re: Debian is testing Discourse



On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:25:59 -0400
Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> wrote:

Hello Carl,

>Actually, since Discourse is Open Source, yes, it can.
>Not necessarily easily, but it can.

Point taken, *but*.....
<pedant>
...it wouldn't be Discourse
</pedant>
It'd be a discourse variant, a fork, that somebody would have to host
elsewhere.  Which could defeat one of the purposes(1), potentially, of
moving certain Debian lists to Discourse.

(1)  Assuming, that is, one of the purposes is to lighten the load on
Debian's already overworked servers.  Nothing I've read indicates that
is part of the aim, though.

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