[vtkusers] Transition to Discourse - thoughts from lurker

[Dan Lipsa]

Elvis,
We transition to Discourse for ParaView and I still receive and reply to
emails the same way as for mailing lists.

https://discourse.paraview.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/64



On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:05 PM Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>
wrote:

> 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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