[developers] Infrastructure notes

[Olga Zamaraeva]

Hi Michael,

> Discourse should not supplant the mailing list unless [...] (b) we can
import the existing list archives or find another solution for archival.

When I started advocating for a Discourse website---primarily because it is
easier to organize figures and code and to mark specific posts as being the
solutions to specific questions, which greatly improves discoverability;
so, very much not plain text---I was certainly operating under the
assumption that such an import is possible (
https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-google-groups-emails/79773
).


On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:59 PM goodman.m.w at gmail.com <
goodman.m.w at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks again to everyone for the interesting discussion about modernizing
> the DELPH-IN infrastructure at the summit. I was relatively quiet during
> the discussion, but I have some thoughts below regarding the mailing list.
>
> I agree it would be sad if the mailing list went away. Fortunately, there
> is a new version of Mailman that runs on Python 3 (see https://list.org/).
> Python's own mailing lists run it (here's an example of python-ideas:
> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/). It has
> some nice features, but I'm not really fond of the archives view compared
> to the dense thread view of Mailman2 (e.g.,
> http://lists.delph-in.net/archives/developers/2020/). Maybe it can be
> configured to look more like this?
>
> I also wouldn't mind using the Discourse site as our mailing list manager,
> but the current UW installation is frequently down or not sending out
> emails. I believe this is an issue particular to the installation and not
> to Discourse itself. Beyond that, Discourse should not supplant the mailing
> list unless (a) it can be used entirely via plaintext email, and (b) we can
> import the existing list archives or find another solution for archival.
>
> I'll send a second email about moving from SVN to Git.
>
> --
> -Michael Wayne Goodman
>


-- 
Olga Zamaraeva
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