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

[Brian Hatfield < >]

I'm also perfectly happy with a standard mailing list. In particular, other open-source projects that I care about also have mailing lists in a similar form, which makes it easy for me to filter and follow projects that I am interested in.

In my opinion, there is a surprising difference between tools-that-send-emails and an honest-to-goodness mailing list.

Your project requirements sound sane, however. Google groups is a common answer, as mentioned earlier; in fact, I thought we were already using Google groups because I wasn't paying attention.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:04 AM, John de la Garza < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm a fan of keeping the mailing list.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Nathen Harvey < "> > wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Adam Jacob < "> > wrote:
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>> And just moved all of our conversation over to Discourse?
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>
> If only because it's questions like this that have killed the migration in
> the past.  We get into analysis paralysis about which tool should we migrate
> to.  We analyze the pros and cons of each.  Try some of them out and then
> give up on the project because, while a priority, it doesn't have a high
> enough priority to maintain our attention span.
>
> Our goals in this project include:
>
> * Migrate off of an in-house managed mail list system
> * Provide "mail in" and "mail out" on a reliable, easy-to-use platform
> * Provide an archive of previous mail list content
>
> I'm all for debate and looking at alternate solutions but this will prolong
> the migration process and may even stall it out completely again.
>
> There is a proposal on StackExchange [0] for a Chef group.  As of this
> morning, it still needs 30 more questions with a score of 10 or more to move
> on to the next phase.  Help get behind that if you think it's appropriate.
>
> Google groups, with all of it's challenges, is stable, reliable, and
> easy-to-use.
>
> My vote is to move forward with the approved RFC [1] and I think we're on
> track to complete that work by the end of the calendar year.
>
>
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>> http://www.discourse.org/
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>> Adam
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> [0]:  http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/77609/chef
> [1]:
> https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc028-mailing-list-migration.md
>