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Hi, |
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Discourse [1] is what all cool kids these days use. LLVM has switched |
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to it some time ago, Python is doing so now after "successful |
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experiment". Unlike of the ancient stuff Gentoo is using right now, |
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it's maintained and has thriving and helpful community. How about we |
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start our own experiment on using it? |
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To cite one concise praise of it from Python ml: |
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> For authors of PEPs and discussion topics, Discourse provides better |
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> authoring experience, allowing for typo fixes and small edits. |
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> For moderators, Discourse also provides the toolings to make their |
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> jobs easier, which is definitely lacking in mailing list. |
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> For the readers, we get the choice of receiving emails via mailing |
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> list mode, or via rss, or by actually going to the site. [2] |
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While I'm not a big fan of these newfangled things, the last argument is |
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quite appealing to me. I mean, I suppose the choice of different |
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interfaces would increase the participation in discussions and reduce |
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the split between Forums and mailing lists. |
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And after all, our Forums are running on a release from Feb 2008 (sic!). |
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Even with all the patching, I'm pretty sure the only reason this swiss |
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cheese hasn't destroyed the underlying server yet is that nobody cares |
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enough to exploit it. Apparently, Discourse has some importer from |
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phpBB3, so we'd probably have to do phpBB2 → phpBB3 conversion first. |
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Yes, I'm talking about replacing Forums, not mailing lists. |
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[1] https://github.com/discourse/discourse |
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[2] |
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https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@××××××.org/message/RFH25FOFAVYN6WB7RYW3APCVCLAVDHK5/ |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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