On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 07:12 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:21 AM Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
...
> That's why the general trend is *away* from email.
>
> The Foreman community recently switched away from mailing lists in this
way,
> and
https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html
> is really interesting and helpful read on the topic for those who might
have
> some ... trepidation.
>
> I'm not sayin' we are ready to shut this list down, but it's honestly
worth
> considering if a different approach will be more effective.
Before the daggers come out.... please take some time to checkout Fedora
Discourse
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ and read the Foreman community link
above.
As I had previously mentioned, Discourse allows for RSS feeds and email
notifications. It also has a mailing list mode.
From the foreman post, in the comments:
Email interface does not really work, there should be rather called
“notifications”. You must visit the site eventually.
I personally find this a fatal flaw, I do not have time to waste
visiting slow websites for each project I follow. If I have to switch
away from my mail client I just end up unfollowing the project unless I
am focusing specifically on it at that time.
It really is a much better solution.
Better for whom and for what purpose ?
I am sure it won't be better for me, all "web forums" I ever used made
for my disappearence from the platform as it was too expensive (time-
wise) for me to keep up.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc