<div dir="ltr">Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Discourse should not supplant the mailing list unless [...] (b) we can import the existing list archives or find another solution for archival.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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 (</font><a href="https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-google-groups-emails/79773">https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-google-groups-emails/79773</a>)<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:59 PM <a href="mailto:goodman.m.w@gmail.com">goodman.m.w@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:goodman.m.w@gmail.com">goodman.m.w@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 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 <a href="https://list.org/" target="_blank">https://list.org/</a>). Python's own mailing lists run it (here's an example of python-ideas: <a href="https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/" target="_blank">https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/</a>). 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., <a href="http://lists.delph-in.net/archives/developers/2020/" target="_blank">http://lists.delph-in.net/archives/developers/2020/</a>). Maybe it can be configured to look more like this?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I'll send a second email about moving from SVN to Git.</div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-Michael Wayne Goodman</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Olga Zamaraeva</div>