Religious war Forum vs ML

[Gilles Caulier]

There is many reason to still connected to KDE infrastructure :

- Bugzilla : the huge project history is here. Migrating outside can be
complicated.
- translations.
- git repositories.
- web hosting.
etc...

Gilles Caulier


2017-01-28 14:53 GMT+01:00 Sveinn í Felli <sv1 at fellsnet.is>:

> Þann lau 28.jan 2017 12:39, skrifaði Simon Frei:
>
>> Discourse mailing capabilities without configuring specially to work
>> just as a ML is not optimal indeed. However when I last tested using a
>> configured forum as ML (for the user: one checkbox to tick) I got
>> exactly the behaviour of a ML (as far as I know it, I am not aware of
>> any "special features" of MLs). So if you don't want to use any of the
>> "forum aspects", you don't have to.
>>
>
> Actually, it has been clear from the beginning that the DigiKam developers
> want to stick to the KDE infrastructure.
>
> KDE offers both Mailman mailinglists and phpBB forums, the latter seems to
> have had its last major UI-overhaul in 2007. Maybe it's time for a change;
> why not combine the two and make sure it's setup not to disrupt the actual
> workflow, keeping existing archives and user IDs.
>
> But I guess the way to propose such a change is at KDE itself, for example
> <https://ev.kde.org/workinggroups/sysadmin.php>.
>
> Best regards,
> Sveinn í Felli
>
> PS: JDD pointed out some DigiKam forums:
>
> https://www.digikam.org/forum/
> https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=255
> http://forum.pcinfo-web.com/digikam-t-4776.html
>
> Plus some language-specific ones.
> None of these have had any considerable activity.
>
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