On 13/05/2023 12:42, Neal Gompa wrote: > 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 was more thinking about the "moderators" than the infra itself (as it's hosted, as you mentioned it) ;-) > > 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. Well, I heard that Fedora-devel itself will move to discourse .. ? So my understanding is that it would be end of mailing lists, for both Fedora and CentOS ? -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 840 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20230513/45107d87/attachment-0002.sig>