[Pandas-dev] Remove old mailing lists

[Marc Garcia]

That's the GitHub issue, most of the discussion was in a thread in this
(pandas-dev) list. I'm in my phone and can't look for the thread now, but I
think it started in the conversation about the website hosting, and then
Joris created a separate thread specific to Discourse.

As I said, I have no preference on Discourse (never used it as I said), but
I think what we have now is suboptimal, and would be great to have
something better. But we had that discussion several weeks ago. We decided
to move forward with Discourse at that time. I spent many hours learning
about it, and setting it up. So, I'm not really looking forward to start
again with this. I'm happy to hand over this to you, if you want to
research further and lead the discussion. And implement whatever is best.

But if I need to continue spending time on this myself, I'd appreciate if
you can find solutions and not problems. I have no idea about how to set up
Discourse as a mailing list, or how to do it for subcommunities. But if you
have a specific way you want it to work, please do the research, and
propose (and implement) the best solution for all us. Or is your proposal
to stay with what we have.

Thanks!


On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, 20:46 Pietro Battiston, <me at pietrobattiston.it> wrote:

> Marc,
>
> is the thread you refer to
> https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/27903 ?
>
> Again, I didn't participate in the discussion, I am not contributing
> much lately, and so my opinion is not very important. But I had
> followed the discussion, I now checked the thread above, and while I
> derived the idea that Discourse could (and probably should) replace the
> pydata ML as a frontend to users (ideally of pydata, not just pandas),
> I fail to see a real discussion, or even just arguments, in favour of
> replacing the devs MLs.
>
>
> Il giorno mar, 12/11/2019 alle 20.21 +0100, Marc Garcia ha scritto:
> > [...]
> >
> > As it has been said, Discourse can be set up to work as a mailing
> > list for people who don't want to use the Discourse interface. So, I
> > don't think this should be a reason to not move forward, you'll just
> > need to subscribe elsewhere, and send messages to a different email
> > address.
>
> I just read the FAQ about how to "use Discourse via email"... I guess
> we can live with filtering incoming emails by List-ID, but I don't
> understand whether there will be multiple emails address to write to,
> for the different "subcommunities". Could you shed some light?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pietro
>
>
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, 20:46 Pietro Battiston, <me at pietrobattiston.it> wrote:

> Marc,
>
> is the thread you refer to
> https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/27903 ?
>
> Again, I didn't participate in the discussion, I am not contributing
> much lately, and so my opinion is not very important. But I had
> followed the discussion, I now checked the thread above, and while I
> derived the idea that Discourse could (and probably should) replace the
> pydata ML as a frontend to users (ideally of pydata, not just pandas),
> I fail to see a real discussion, or even just arguments, in favour of
> replacing the devs MLs.
>
>
> Il giorno mar, 12/11/2019 alle 20.21 +0100, Marc Garcia ha scritto:
> > [...]
> >
> > As it has been said, Discourse can be set up to work as a mailing
> > list for people who don't want to use the Discourse interface. So, I
> > don't think this should be a reason to not move forward, you'll just
> > need to subscribe elsewhere, and send messages to a different email
> > address.
>
> I just read the FAQ about how to "use Discourse via email"... I guess
> we can live with filtering incoming emails by List-ID, but I don't
> understand whether there will be multiple emails address to write to,
> for the different "subcommunities". Could you shed some light?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pietro
>
>
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