On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:39 AM Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@bzb.us> wrote:
> But RSS really isn't the point of this thread.  My point is that Fedora should move to Discourse.  It's a much better solution for
> discussion.  We should publish a timeline and just do it.

Fedora should not "just do it" because "it's a much better solution".
If you want Fedora to consider moving to Discourse over email, it
would be nice to see an analysis like:

1) What are the pros and cons? Is Discourse's mailing list mode an
acceptable interface for people who prefer maillng lists and wouldn't
want to interact with Discourse itself?

2) What's the migration strategy look like? Can users on the mailing
lists be automatically added to the relevant discourse lists?

3) Will there be a transition period where the old list addresses
continue to work? Can they be maintained in perpetuity, or at least
aliased to the right thing?

I'm not saying *you* need to answer these questions, but I think
*someone* should before proposing to move all of Fedora's mailing list
infrastructure to Discourse. We would request answers to similar
questions for a system-wide change proposal, and I think generally
similar policies should be applied when considering major changes to
the distribution's infrastructure. And the mailing lists are
definitely an important part of the distribution's infrastructure.