On 27 August 2019 14:23:48 CEST, "Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox(a)bzb.us> wrote:
I read all the comments and my response is this...
First of all, there is no limit to the amount of emails that discourse
will
send out. That is a site parameter, and whomever supports it for
Fedora
needs to change it:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-limits-for-outgoing-mails-per-user/41458
If the requirement is that discourse completely replicate 100% the
functionality of mailing lists, that is unreasonable and isn't going to
happen. As I mentioned earlier there are several groups working on
this or
have done migration from mailing lists to discourse:
https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/lets-try-to-emulate-a-mailing-l...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-mailing-lists-majordomo-or-othe...
You can find more examples with a web search.
A key comment was: "Our site is still quite busy, although some people
are
still grumbling about the change, 8 months later. The die-hard email
users
are still able to participate, which came as a bit of a pleasant shock
to
them. I think they were fully expecting that once we moved to a modern
platform, they’d be forced to use a web interface."
Personally, I don't like my mailbox filled up with mailing list
postings.
I prefer to uses the discourse rss interface to scan for topics and
then go
directly to it to respond. Instead of writing a "me too" email, I can
simply click a like button to show I'm in agreement. It's easier to
see
the full context of a thread. With the current situation I have to go
scan
the archives. I like to use the mobile app to read and reply from my
phone. For every item mentioned about discourse doesn't do A, B, C
with
mailing lists I can counter with an item that email lists cannot do.
The
fact is that for the vast majority of people, the discourse mailing
list
functionality is good enough - and as time goes on it continues to
improve
- but again, it's not reasonable to expect or demand 100%. IMO the
pros
outweigh the cons.
The top of this email thread is: No longer supporting mailing lists
and my understanding is that Fedora is searching for people to take
over
support. Seems to me that is a good time to consider switching to
discourse. From reading experiences of people who did the migration,
it's
easier to support.
But the way to go about a change isn't to start the change and see what happens. The
proper way is to look at the alternatives at hand and what the implications of the
respective solutions are.
That means a wee bit more analysis than linking to a marketing post by one of the
providers of solutions.
I understand that you like discourse, you have made that clear.