[vtkusers] Transition to Discourse - thoughts from lurker

[Bill Lorensen]

I'm sorry but I just use the email on discourse. Much easier to respond. I
do the same on slicer.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 10:46 AM 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? :)
>
> 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.
>
> 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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