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Re: State of the GNUnion 2020


From: Alexandre François Garreau
Subject: Re: State of the GNUnion 2020
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:00:59 +0100

Le mardi 25 février 2020, 09:49:02 CET Dmitry Gutov a écrit :
> On 25.02.2020 3:58, Alexandre François Garreau wrote:
> >> Regarding punishing repeat offenders anyway, as we've seen just
> >> recently, you can't censor a determined individual on a public
> >> mailing
> >> list anyway. Limit their audience, sure, but banning them outright
> >> seems impossible. And I can hardly see the whole GNU project
> >> migrating off mailing lists.
> > 
> > If new younger people come in charge and want to succeed to “compete”
> > with github, gitlab, etc. I can see how they’d like to replace
> > mailing-lists with gitlab or other SaaSS-like web software…
> 
> They would replace it with Discourse, which is web-based, but also Free
> Software. I personally would probably endorse that, but it indeed needs
> a browser to use. Or specialized clients using the web API, etc.

Well Discourse has the advantage that you can pretend that it does maling-
lists because you can somewhat interact with it by mail… yet it replaces 
all mail addresses (so to completely break the concept of mail-federation 
and makes mandatory for everything to be centralized on its plateform… 
which, for censorship sakes, is likely what they’d like) and breaks 
headers…

But Discours is also so much full of javascript and “interactive” stuff, as 
well as being heavy for both server and client, that I believe they 
wouldn’t go as far as that. There are limits…




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