Hello the list, Laurent, our sysadmin is updating our infrastructure (used for both BibLibre & community things). jenkins just moved to a new server, and he's now thinking of moving mailman server. He asked me a question that seems to be a good one: what about switching to a new tool like discourse https://www.discourse.org/ I don't know well this tool, but it seems to have many interesting features. Your opinion? -- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries
Hi Paul & everyone, Paul Poulain schrieb am 05.02.2016
Your opinion?
I know Discourse and think it is a nice tool. However I don't think it is a good replacement for our mailing lists in general. I am subscribed to a lot of list (not only several Koha lists), I move and filter a lot to keep things organized. I can read it on different plattforms and with very little bandwidth overhead. I don't have time to keep track of everything in Discourse, and the email notification options are not the same as a mailing list. I think there is an option to use it via email, but I suspect it comes with a lot of clutter. I don't know if it could be useful for dev talk explicitly, replacing/bundling threads on BZ and the dev list. It may be helpful to organize discussions in that case. -- Mirko
I'm in much the same boat as Mirko -- the mailing list fits my existing workflow. Discourse, to my mind, fills a niche between IRC and a mailing list. I wouldn't want to try to replace either of those with Discourse, but I think that it might be helpful for certain kinds of discussion like RFCs or Wiki development where we need better threading than is available on IRC, but a more robust back-and-forth than we get on the mailing list. If we could embed discourse on the wiki, I think that could be a win. --Barton On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Mirko Tietgen <mirko@abunchofthings.net> wrote:
Hi Paul & everyone,
Paul Poulain schrieb am 05.02.2016
Your opinion?
I know Discourse and think it is a nice tool. However I don't think it is a good replacement for our mailing lists in general. I am subscribed to a lot of list (not only several Koha lists), I move and filter a lot to keep things organized. I can read it on different plattforms and with very little bandwidth overhead.
I don't have time to keep track of everything in Discourse, and the email notification options are not the same as a mailing list. I think there is an option to use it via email, but I suspect it comes with a lot of clutter.
I don't know if it could be useful for dev talk explicitly, replacing/bundling threads on BZ and the dev list. It may be helpful to organize discussions in that case.
-- Mirko
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