On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 4:02 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote: > > 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 :-) > Fedora's Discourse is run by Civilized Discourse Construction Kit (the developers of Discourse), not Fedora. Getting a CentOS Discourse instance would not add any load for anyone, since nobody in Fedora/CentOS would be "maintaining" it as CDCK would be contracted to run it too. I'd rather keep mailing lists for development myself. For that, I would suggest moving them to Fedora's instance and leveraging the multi-domain feature so that lists.centos.org goes to Fedora's instance. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!