Re: [Summary] Discourse for Debian
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 5:48 AM Neil McGovern <neil@halon.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:22:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > Would you be willing to list out which points it is from the given
> > "cons" category which you see as positives?
> >
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> The point of this Discourse instance is to try and see if there is
> interest in moving to it rather than smartlists for community
> discussions. If there is sufficient interest, we can then find a group
> of people who want to consider these tradeoffs and who are willing to
> help with the way categories are organised, for example.
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If I had a vote, I would vote to move this discussion to a test Discourse
instance, since that will eliminate a lot of the confirmation bias (in
favor of mailing lists), as well as force people to become familiar with
the software before making a judgement.
AIUI, Discourse is intended to be a way of turning questions/discussions
into documentation without requiring a bunch of extra work (which is the
reason for some of the features people are calling out, like allowing
edits to another user's comments). If our goal is to have something
exactly like a mailing list, we are wasting our time.
Also, privacy concerns keep coming up... For me, the mailing lists are
actually much more concerning wrt privacy than having Discourse track me
internally. I can take back or re-word a comment on that platform.
Having discussions in the public record forever is daunting. To me, my
comments are a lot more sensitive than my habits -- and the current system
doesn't give me _any_ control over past comments. My email headers are
stored online, publicly, forever when I use the Debian lists. We get a
lot of posts from people who don't understand the implications of that,
and everyone involved in this discussion has already decided to accept
that trade-off.
--
Eldon
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