Re: Moving discussion off flac-dev to somewhere else

Hi,

just an idea from a user that has posted only very few times on this list:

Wouldn't it be possible to connect GitHub and the mailing list?

The github API allows you to read/create/comment issues. You would need 
to run a script that creates a new mailing list thread for every issue 
opened on github and also creates a github issue for every new mailing 
list thread in reverse.
For the follow-up mail / github comments the same.

This way all users have all communication and can choose the system they 
prefer. The only thing that could be tricky is posting patches on the 
mailing list.

At best this script would be integrated that into the mailing-list 
system somehow, so the sender name can be set to the github account name.

A quick search shows other were looking for something similar, but there 
doesn't seem to a common solution.

Best regards
Stefan



Am 16.06.25 um 21:26 schrieb Martijn van Beurden:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for the replies. I understand the general sentiment, it was not
> unexpected. I'd like to reply to certain things that were mentioned.
> 
> The flac and flac-dev mailing lists are mentioned as one here, but I
> think the flac mailing list is far less valuable than the flac-dev
> list. flac (the users mailing list) had 2 discussions in the last 3
> years. I'd say that list can go anyway. The fate of flac-dev is
> something that I think can be discussed.
> 
> Considering the conditions of using GitHub, it would be possible to
> use an alternative instead. Xiph already has a gitlab, which I think
> would solve the terms and conditions part, but this is currently
> effectively "invite only" because of the amount of bot accounts. There
> are also 'libre' alternatives to github, like Codeberg. That of course
> doesn't solve the other raised issues. If anyone has other
> suggestions, let me know.
> 
> Once again thanks for the replies.
> 
> Kind regards, Martijn van Beurden
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