[rebellion attempt] Fight back!

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> * On 2022 24 Oct 03:26 -0500, Werner LEMBERG via mc wrote:
>>
>>> a lot of the Evolution mailing list members, including myself,
>>> tested the mailing list ability of Discourse. I was not allowed to
>>> start a new thread by email, because my gamification level was 0.
>>> You are allowed to start a new thread by email, after you reached
>>> level 1.  This is not the only annoyance. Discourse GNOME has got no
>>> real mailing list ability.
>>
>> Given that mc is a GNU project, why not using the most natural site,
>> `gnu.org`, for a mailing list?  An additional bonus is that the
>> gnu.org mailing list archives come with a nice – and working! – search
>> interface.
>
> Werner, I think that would be ideal.  I am not an mc dev, just a user
> satisfied with the program for 26 years or so.  I don't recall where the
> bug tracker is hosted, probably aggregated in the rest of GNOME, but it
> would be nice to move mc issues over to the Savannah tracking system.
> If the mc devs would agree I think this process should be expedited
> given the short time frame available.

Well, we haven't been formally excommunicated from GNU, but I wouldn't 
want to use more of their infrastructure than necessary, and rather 
maintain strategic ambiguity for as long as tenable.

Our Trac instance is hosted at OSU OSL. I have applied for a mailing list 
there yesterday, but haven't heard back yet.

By the way, it was a lot of work back in the day to migrate the tickets 
from Savannah to Trac, and if I were to migrate the tickets somewhere else 
today, that would be GitHub. Unforunately, so far no one serious enough 
turned up to see what can be done about that... and a bad migration 
doesn't bring anything either.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev