On 4/12/2020 10:45 AM, Reco wrote: > Dear list, > > [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts: > > What about the mailing lists? > This may or may not be a replacement for any particular list. I > suspect there are some thet would benefit greatly from having Discourse > be the primary interaction, and other places where this would be less > suitable. > > Be specific! > Ok... I think *debian-user*, debian-vote and possibly debian-project > would be better off in Discourse. I think debian-devel-announce should > stay as an email list (for now). However, I am not suddenly proposing > that we shut those lists down. The aim of this exercise is to see if > Discourse would work well for us. >
Debian is very good at accessibility, moving to something other then the mailing lists will make accessibility less functional. > Email is still important to me! > Fine, you can interact with Discorse by email rather than the web Here with Debian's mailing lists, I can interact without having to login to a website to configure being able to use e-mails If such a move is done, I'll have to find an other destro. > interface. It should be noted however, that there is *not 1:1 feature > partiy* with email and the web interface, as Discorse does things that > can't easily be done with email. For the majority of users though, email > interaction should be "good enough". What does 'good enough' means? > > Why are you doing this? > I have two motivations. First, is *moderation*. Discourse has built in > tools to allow community moderation on a much better scale than our > email lists. Secondly, I genuinely believe that ease of access to new > contributors is of paramount importance to the project. > Ease of accessibility is something that you probably don't understand from the perspective of a screenreader user. > > So, thoughts, options? > To summerise my thoughts, from an accessibility point of view using e-mails to interact with a webinterface is ludicrous. Note that I'm not answering to Reco but to the poster from (1). -- John Doe
