Re: [Notion-general] Moving the mailinglists away from Sourceforge

[Wojciech A. <ani...@co...>]

It would be a sad move to migrate to Google, or any other login-requiring
service. 

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:42:41AM +0000, tot-to wrote:
> Hi Arnout,
> 
> > That's not necessarily a bad thing, though.
> 
> Perhaps, it would be a good thing, if forum-like interface is
> supplemental to the maillist, but not when it substitutes the maillist.
> 
> > It would be nice to allow people to participate even without a google
> > account - it's indeed pretty neat that sf.net allows you to subscribe
> > without requiring a sf.net account.
> 
> I belive it's a general Google's attitute. For instance I have quite a
> few XMPP contacts from Google. At random login to their account, they
> can receive a suggestion to try so-called Hangouts. If they agree,
> Google silently disables XMPP for them, while I receive an
> "authorization rejected" message and silently disappear from their list.
> 
> Google is one of those proprietary services, that tries to vendor
> lock-in existing users and to impose thier services to others. Please
> don't migrate the maillist to Google.
> 
> > Still, I'd like a nicer home for the lists :).
> 
> Could you please clarify what do you mean by nicer? Or why sourceforge
> and/or mailman is not good enough?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 11:31:21 +0200
> From: Arnout Engelen <no...@bz...>
> To: tot-to <not...@to...>
> Cc: notion-general <not...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [Notion-general] Moving the mailinglists away from
> Sourceforge
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:34 AM, tot-to <not...@to...> wrote:
> 
> > The page on groups.google.com didn't look like a maillist
> > subscription page, but more like a forum.
> 
> 
> That's not necessarily a bad thing, though.
> 
> 
> > I can't see any "subscribe" button and "New Topic" button redirects to the
> > login page, excluding me from the discussion, because I'm not a Google user.
> >
> 
> It would be nice to allow people to participate even without a google
> account - it's indeed pretty neat that sf.net allows you to subscribe
> without requiring a sf.net account.
> 
> Why you don't like the sourceforge maillists? They use a standart
> > mailman, which does not impose using other services.
> >
> 
> I agree the migration doesn't need to be big-bang (as said I already
> accept tickets and PR's on github, for example, and would love it when
> someone could help moving the site and documentation). Still, I'd like
> a nicer home for the lists :).
> 
> 
> Arnout
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 17:26:51 +0200
> > From: Arnout Engelen <no...@bz...>
> > To: notion-general <not...@li...>
> > Subject: [Notion-general] Moving the mailinglists away from Sourceforge
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to start moving away from sourceforge.
> >
> > I already accept PR's and issues on https://github.com/raboof/notion
> >
> > It would be nice to have something nicer for the site and docs as
> > described at https://sourceforge.net/p/notion/mailman/message/32591869
> >
> > We'd need to move the mailinglists somewhere, Google Groups might be a
> > good candidate.
> >
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Arnout
> >
> >
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