[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: What if we killed the mailing list altogether...

[Adam Jacob < >]

Honestly, a few things, for me.

1) the mailing list isn't a common place for new users to wind up. All it takes is a glance at the stack overflow volume to see that a lot of users clearly don't think of the ML first, or even at all. We're old. :)

2) Tagging, sticky threads, and easier community moderation.

3) Easy to have peoples identity come from lots of sources.

Not a fiat thing - just noodling out loud.

Adam

On Nov 25, 2014 5:33 PM, "KC Braunschweig" < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

What's the problem we're trying to solve here? Are people having specific problems with the ML? Has chef inc been using discourse internally? What are the pros for it over a traditional ML from folks that have used it a while? My vote is ML cause I like them and don't see a problem, but happy to hear specifics. changemyview?

KC

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:05 PM, AJ Christensen < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

It's possible to interact w/ Discourse via email. I've used it for
forums for MMORPG guilds before. Works OK. It's nice having markdown,
sticky posts, surveys and the like.

Not sure how it would work on this kind of scale -- how many active
subs do you have to the ML? You'll need to run Discourse somewhere :-)
You don't have to run GGroups.

cheers,

--aj

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Tyler < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
> (I don’t know anything about discourse, so it may not do this) What if it continued to operate like a mailing list?  IE, you could still send mail to reply and receive mail when other people post.  If Discourse did that, would that fulfill your purpose?
>
> I would like a better UI for searching.  And if we switched to something like Discourse I could see tags being useful too.
>
> -T
>
>> On Nov 25, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Phil Dibowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:39:38PM -0800, Adam Jacob wrote:
>>> And just moved all of our conversation over to Discourse?
>>>
>>> http://www.discourse.org/
>>
>> Please no.
>>
>> Mailing lists are great for technical discussion... where you want to do
>> things like use 'vim' in your email client, suck in code snippets, format
>> nicely, etc.
>>
>> --
>> Phil Dibowitz                              " target="_blank">
>> Open Source software and tech docs        Insanity Palace of Metallica
>> http://www.phildev.net/                   http://www.ipom.com/
>>
>> "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter
>> and those who matter don't mind."
>> - Dr. Seuss
>>
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