[vtkusers] Transition to Discourse - thoughts from lurker

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den ons 23 jan. 2019 kl 19:50 skrev Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>:
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:46 PM Elvis Stansvik
> <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
> >
> > Meanwhile I see that discussion is still active on the dev mailing
> > list. Shouldn't the VTK developers dogfood and use the Development
> > category on Discourse now? :)
>
> Yep, that's the idea for new developer topics. I think it makes sense
> for existing discussions to be wrapped up on the mailing list for
> archival purposes.
>
> > Sorry, mostly joking. I'm one of the ones who are sad to see the
> > mailing lists go, and the greater transition to Discourse, as my life
> > is sort of built around my inbox :p I'll grudgingly accept defeat and
> > register of course.
>
> You can still use email! Albeit with some of the caveats mentioned in
> the discussion leading up to this transition.

Yep, threw in some thoughts in that that thread (I think). I
participate some in other communities that have transitioned to
Discourse (e.g. HDF5), and it's a pain.. I can't collect all my
correspondence in one place anymore, marking/unmarking of stuff as
read etc., the mails from Discourse has a lot of cruft (buttons/links)
and the threading/replying inline doesn't work well. Also, if I reply
to a thread via the web UI, it'll show up as unread in my inbox
(naturally), which is annoying because I use that to keep an eye on
topics I follow. Also can't catch up on stuff while offline, which
occasionally do happen.

Wait, now I started a rambling when I promised myself not to do it :)
It's a community decision and I accept that. Perhaps the mail
integration will improve.

Elvis

>
> - Cory
>
> >
> > Elvis
> >
> > Den tis 22 jan. 2019 kl 19:28 skrev Andras Lasso <lasso at queensu.ca>:
> > >
> > > A soft transition worked quite nicely for both Slicer and ITK. For a while, questions sent to the mailing list were still answered there but a users were reminded that further questions should be posted to the forum. Then we stopped responding on the mailing list but asked people to post messages to discourse. Finally, we disabled posting to the list and set an auto-response message that explained that questions should be now posted on the forum. This transition was completed in a few months.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It took a couple of months for google to start indexing the forum with high frequency and about a year to reach the same number of registered members as on the old mailing list.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Andras
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: vtkusers <vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org> On Behalf Of Jan Hardenbergh
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:48 PM
> > > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > > Subject: [vtkusers] Transition to Discourse - thoughts from lurker
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > There is a question here that has not really been addressed in the Welcome To Discourse page:
> > >
> > >  https://discourse.vtk.org/t/welcome-to-discourse/8
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Why should they come here?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What is the motivation for the switch?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If this will make it easier to provide support, that’s a good reason. A good transition strategy might be to reply to questions that are asked on the mailing list in Discourse, and then reply to the mailing list with the link.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Another transition strategy would be to post the Topics Titles active for the past week to get people to go to Discourse if they are interested in that topic.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Back to lurking…
> > >
> > > YON – Jan C. Hardenbergh, VolumePro SW Eng. Mgr. Terarecon, Inc.
> > >
> > >
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