On 22/11/17 11:42, Marek Hulán wrote:> > Yes please, editing feature feels odd to me. When you read the thread > later, it can be very confusing. Especially if we don't get email > notifications about the edit. Done.
> Just to minimize the risk this could happen, I think it would be > reasonable to run discourse and users mailing list in parallel at > least for month. So Ohad already made a good point about roll-forward - given we would want to minimize disruption to users, any future migration would be to something where we could re-use the "users|[email protected]" addresses. We'll never be returning to the Google Groups mailing list anyway. On the above basis, I'm not sure what risk we're minimizing by running the two in parallel. The risk of Discourse not being right for us is still present, and the need to migrate to something new is still present. > We could change all links on our web sites to mention only > discourse, we could include the scheduled shutdown information to > every reply on mailing list but just to be cautious We generate a lot of work for ourselves this way. In addition, I can't finalize the import process until all the posts are migrated, so that's more work maintaining the importer, and also we can't merge duplicate users. The importer also blocks outgoing mail for about 6 minutes when it runs, so there's (small) chance that email notifies could fail if a post is created while the importer is running. This is all avoided if we can be done with the importing at migration-time. So instead, I would suggest that we use [1] (second part about blocking), but instead we moderate (not block) all new posts, and make the very last visible post to the list be the final migration notice (as well as updating the group description of course). We can migrate moderated posts to Discourse behind the scenes, and tell the user where it went. These posts will never appear in the mailing list, so the importer isn't needed. Even then, that's additional work (probably done by me, if we're being honest :P), so I'd only do that for a week or two at the most, just while people orient, and then block the Google group entirely. > we should not drop the existing list until we're sure discourse works > for us. I don't know if it *ever* makes sense to delete the Group completely, as that removes the web archive too, but we can decide that much later on. Hope that makes sense, Greg [1] https://support.google.com/groups/answer/2646833?hl=en&ref_topic=2458761 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
