Migrate to Mailing Lists to Modern Forum Software

Netroby hufeng1987 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 09:29:27 UTC 2020


I am not surprised.

I am trying hard to teach my grandfather to use the iPhone. He did not
well understand how to use it .


People do not quickly accept new things. we need more time. Maybe in
100 year later we can see new communication tools or software.

Be patient

Appreciate your time.
----------------------------
Netroby

Timmy Jose <zoltan.jose at gmail.com> 于2020年12月28日周一 下午5:13写道:
>
> Indeed. It's ridiculous that in 2020/1, email is still being used as the main form of communication. It's about as free as any other medium today which means not at all.
>
> If anything, email absolutely sucks as a discussion medium. No wonder the rest of the world thinks the Java world is moribund and decrepit.
>
> The Rust team, for all its own issues, is excellent when it comes to adopting the right technology for the right job.
>
> Just giving my views reading the objections to this thread, please don't bother trying to change my mind.
>
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, 07:31 Netroby, <hufeng1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Don't be afraid of new technology.
>> Github discussion send thread, post via email also.
>>
>> It's just a mail list (if you like mail lists). and also provided user
>> an mail list archives web UI
>>
>> All the threads and posts you can see there and your mailbox.
>>
>> Not quite more big changes. don't be afraid.
>> You lost nothing.
>> everything is working just fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Appreciate your time.
>> ----------------------------
>> Netroby
>>
>> Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> 于2020年12月28日周一 上午3:29写道:
>> >
>> > Please no.
>> >
>> > We don't need more github in our workflow and we don't need other
>> > platforms for discussions.
>> >
>> > Everywhere something other than mailing lists are used discussions
>> > tend to be hidden and difficult to follow, with threads impossible to
>> > reconstruct (and my opinion is that this is true also for github
>> > generated emails from PRs).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Mario
>> >
>> > Il giorno dom 27 dic 2020 alle ore 09:17 Suminda Sirinath
>> > Salpitikorala Dharmasena <sirinath1978m at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>> > >
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > Is it possible to migrate the mailing lists to a modern forum software like:
>> > > - https://flarum.org/ or
>> > > - https://www.discourse.org/
>> > >
>> > > Discourse is widely used and has a very modern look.
>> > >
>> > > Flarum is not that mature but looks like it is better UX. Also this has a
>> > > permissive license. Also maybe the community can contribute by driving it
>> > > direction to suit the OpenJDK forum needs and stability.
>> > >
>> > > Since the code was migrated to GitHub maybe the forums also can be migrated
>> > > as well.
>> > >
>> > > Suminda
>> >
>> >
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