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Victor Stinner vstinner at redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 09:48:17 EDT 2018 
Le mer. 17 oct. 2018 à 03:56, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> a écrit :
> I also supported the trial of Discourse.
>
> However, now that I have tried it, it will be a no from me.  I find the
> presentation of threaded conversations in linear format to be confusing,
> figuring out what I have and have not read to be difficult, and the
> overall frustration to not be worth it.  It definitely has some nice
> features, but I won't be using them because I won't be using Discourse.

I don't think that we should see mailing lists and Discourse as
exclusive. There is maybe a middle ground, like keep some mailing
lists, but slowly migrate some specific mailing lists to Discourse?

IMHO Discourse is more appropriate for python-ideas than for
python-committers. python-committers is more for short discussions
with few people. On python-ideas, there are more long discussions with
many people who throw many new ideas in the middle of a thread.

We can also imagine to have Discourse and mailing lists who coexist,
even if I know that Lukasz dislikes this idea :-)

Jonathan Corbet just wrote an article on LWN about Fedora and Python
migrating to Discourse :-)
"A farewell to email"
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/768483/1b32a21a6e30e1b7/

Victor
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