Re: Diversification [ branched from Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile]

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 04:24:07PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> > A mailing list web interface may help these users.
> 
> I probably missed something in this discussion, but here goes: have you
> looked at Mailman 3 and its web interface?
> 
> Here’s a demo:
> 
>     https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/
> 
> I think that’s really forum-like.  For some reason this newer version of
> Mailman is not in use within the GNU project.  (I’m guessing that’s due
> to a lack of GNU volunteers who could spare the time to upgrade while
> making sure nothing breaks.)
> 
> Is there something missing from Mailman 3 that your new project would
> provide?  I’m all for writing things in Guile, but I don’t see the
> urgent need for a mailing list web interface when there is Mailman.
> 

I frankly had never tried Hyperkitty yet.  It looks really good and is
very forum-like.  However, it also fundamentally relies on Javascript
and I would prefer browsing the archives without Javascript.  I will
look at it later and think some more.  Thank you!

Regards,
Florian