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.
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.
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.
