<div dir="ltr"> On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 3:59 PM Olga Zamaraeva <<a href="mailto:olzama@uw.edu">olzama@uw.edu</a>> wrote: > > 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 (<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>). Thanks, Olga. To clarify on that point, I appreciate and use the features of the web interface, but if the Discourse instance is to replace the mailing list, it should *also* be fully usable by email (by "fully" I mean that people can follow and participate in the conversation as if it were email; not including web-only features like thread tagging or marking posts as solutions). The formatting in the posts, being Markdown, should be legible in plaintext email (although HTML mail is pretty standard these days; maybe I'm not being "modern" enough and should relax that point :). > > 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: >> >> 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 <a href="https://list.org/">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/">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/">http://lists.delph-in.net/archives/developers/2020/</a>). 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 -- -Michael Wayne Goodman</div>