[CentOS-devel] RFC (Request for Comments) : future of lists.centos.org (aka centos mailing-lists)

Sat May 13 08:01:59 UTC 2023
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

On 11/05/2023 21:38, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 10:27 -0400, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>> so I think the possible options are:
>>
>> Option 1: move to EL-8 mailman2 til next June.. then punt to 2,3,4
>> Option 2: volunteer and do the work to make mailman3 work (this needs 
>> packaging, webwork, database work, importing of old archives, 
>> resubscribing n people, etc).
>> Option 2b: volunteer and use a different supportable mailing list 
>> software (this needs...)
>> Option 3: discontinue email lists and have Fedora discourse run threads.
>> Option 4: move the mailing lists to another organization and let them 
>> manage the email (this needs ...)
> 
> Not necessarily advocating, but I'm going to add:
> 
> Option 3b: discontinue email lists and have a dedicated CentOS Discourse.
> 

<personal opinion> I don't like Discourse, it's not a mailing-list and 
you can't read threads from a mail client, which lot of people, 
including me, are used to ...
</personal opinion>

If discontinuing the email lists is a CentOS board choice, maybe it's 
better to not reinvent the wheel and "merge" it with Fedora instance 
(with sub-categories, threads, $whatever) ?
That way, Fedora folks managing one instance don't have to manage 
another one ?

Just me two cents :-)

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Fabian Arrotin
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