Moving to Discourse from mailing lists?

[Simon Quigley]

Hello Robie,

On 3/18/25 02:37 PM, Robie Basak wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu Developers,
> 
> Following the move from IRC to Matrix, the topic of moving to Discourse
> from mailing lists came up, as one might expect. I can't be alone in
> finding it extra effort to track both. Could the key Ubuntu developer
> lists move over to Discourse entirely, so there's one fewer place where
> key Ubuntu development communications happen? I note that
> ubuntu-desktop@ has essentially made the move already.

Strong +1; in my opinion, it's even overdue.

> Personally I'm less sure this time, because I haven't found a way for
> various mailing list workflows to work on Discourse for myself, but I am
> open to figuring out how to make it work.

There will be some rough edges, but in my opinion, the benefits outweigh the tradeoffs.

> In response to my concern, Ian Weisser[1] has kindly offered to spend
> some time with me and anyone else similarly skeptical to figure out how
> mailing list workflows would map over to Discourse. This would be
> realtime - I think the plan is to use some suitable video call platform.
> 
> So this is now an offer to all Ubuntu developers, especially those
> skeptical about deprecating Ubuntu developer mailing lists, to help give
> Discourse a fair shot by allowing Ian to suggest alternative workflows
> that will work for you. If you'd like to join, please reply privately so
> that I can coordinate the session with Ian.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robie
> 
> [1] In case you're unfamiliar, Ian is a prolific participant, moderator
> and general leader over on the Ubuntu Discourse side of things, and is
> an Ubuntu member.

Ian is also the closest Ubuntu Member to me, geographically speaking. ;)

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