[Overload-sig] Experimenting on real-world groups with potential solutions

[Donald Stufft]

I don’t believe there is a gmane gateway for discourse, but as Brett mentioned there is a “mailing list mode” that individual participants can select so that they never need to use the web interface. I’m told that it’s not as good as a dedicated mailing list software, but whether it’s good enough for actual day to day use I don’t know.

One thing that we should consider if we attempt to try out discourse, is to keep an eye on collapsing all of the mailing lists to a single discourse instance and having a forum per what we have now as separate mailing lists. I think one good thing about doing this if it’s workable is that we can move topics to different forums (e.g. if someone posts in python-dev but it should have been in python-list) and it allows much easier interlinking and quotes from different forums.

> On Jun 21, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> There is at least a mailing list mode for Discourse: https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008 <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008> . Mozilla actually funded some mailing list interaction work: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source-support-first-awards-made/ <https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source-support-first-awards-made/> .
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> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 at 11:44 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
> Excuse my total ignorance -- what's the experience for users who don't interact through Discourse? Do they not see anything that's happening in Discourse, or does it have a gateway (like python-list vs. comp.lang.python, or the various GMane things)?
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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org <mailto:brett at python.org>> wrote:
> I'm willing to offer up python-ideas as an experimental group of people to try a new approach to communicating if we want to try something out on an existing mailing list that isn't as critical as python-dev. I also know that Donald has expressed interest in trying Discourse on distutils-sig as have I (I believe lack of time is what has prevented this experiment from occurring on Donald's side, definitely the reason I haven't tried Discourse on python-ideas).
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