On 01/08/18 03:35, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
Op dinsdag 31 juli 2018 19:42:14 CEST schreef Ronan Chagas:
Hi guys!
First of all, sorry if this is not the correct list to post something like this.
openSUSE has many mailing lists and some are very active. I, as a developer, must follow some to make sure I did not miss an important news. However, IMHO, mailing lists through e-mails are not that good anymore. It is very difficult to search for a message (if you did not archive everything, then you must rely on the on-line database), if you delete a message, reply to that thread is not very straightforward, etc.
I am wondering why do we not change to a more modern platform created with this kind of discussion in mind? In Julia project, they setup a discourse (http://discourse.julialang.org). It turn out that it is very good. In my opinion, much better than mailing lists using e-mails.
What do you think about this?
Cheers, Ronan I tend to see discourse not as a mailing lists replacement, rather a forums replacement, and from that perspective I only see replacement of one database by another. At the board f2f we talked about Matrix, which can be accessed in multiple ways.
I tend to agree, one clarification though, we were talking about matrix as an IRC replacement / substitute rather then a mailing list replacement, we didn't talk about replacing mailing lists with anything (other then closing off ones we don't use) -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B