Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

On 10/21/22 09:15, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 16:04 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list
> wrote:
>> Dnia 21.10.2022 o godz. 14:57:04 Patrick O'Callaghan pisze:
>>> As others have said, Evolution is primarily an email client, and it
>>> makes sense that its main support forum should be a properly managed
>>> mailing list.
>> A quick and simple question: who is in position to decide to move this list
>> to another mailing list, hosted elsewhere? There have been already a few
>> propositions on this list for an alternative. Who is the "owner" of this
>> list who can decide about the move?
> I think the issue is largely that Evolution is a Gnome application. Any
> "official" list - i.e. mentioned in documentation and so on - should,
> or really can only, be under the auspices of the Gnome organisation. If
> it's not then it's just some other random mailing list.
>
> Gnome users will consistently be pointed towards Discourse as the route
> for help and support; the developers will primarily be using Discourse
> as their route to helping people and receiving feedback. No matter how
> often people are told that "the helpful people are over there", it
> would still be unofficial and unlikely to gain traction.
>
And via use of the "Trust" system, they have rendered it impossible
to shadow the list as that ID will never develop any trust.
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