Mailing list alternative

[aravindavk]

Recently I discovered that many communities are using "Discourse" forum instead of the mailing list. Is it worth to evaluate that for Gluster community as well?

https://www.discourse.org/

Features compared to the mailing list

• Open source
• One page per topic makes it easy to read replies and comments for a topic
• Shows interesting metrics like Number of Views, number of replies etc
• Admin dashboard
• and many more https://payments.discourse.org/features
• Mobile friendly

Who is using? (Not complete list, Just added a few)

• Docker https://forums.docker.com/
• Rust Community https://users.rust-lang.org/
• Elixir community https://elixirforum.com/
• Twitter https://twittercommunity.com/
• Codecademy https://discuss.codecademy.com/

Challenges(or Unknowns):

• Migration of mailing list archive if required.
• Migration of users

[amarts]

@gluster/gluster-maintainers What do you all think? This is surely going to be nicer option for sure!

@aravindavk how about an email for community?

[nixpanic]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:58:11PM -0700, Amar Tumballi wrote:

@gluster/gluster-maintainers What do you all think? This is surely going to be nicer option for sure!

We could also move to HyperKitty (https://hyperkitty.readthedocs.io/) and keep the mailinglists but add some interactivity. Fedora offers it for their lists already: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/

[sankarshanmukhopadhyay]

It would be worth posting a link to this discussion on the infrastructure list to ensure that the maintainers of the mailing list infrastructure aware of this and also contribute to how they see this fitting into the plans of OSPO etc