About Discourse and mailing list deprecation

Reps
#1

Hi Reps,

in 2017 I started to work on this task for the Council but seems that after only 2 years it is possible to migrate the mailing list to Discourse.

There is an old ticket https://github.com/mozilla/Reps/issues/272 that reference to a ticket from https://github.com/mozilla/discourse/issues/28#issuecomment-537888975

@leo mplemented the auto watch of a category by group in Discourse (for the community portal), and with the support of automatically create a group from mozillians already available this let to remove the mailing list.

So let’s discuss about this task and how we can involve better Reps to join Discourse!

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#2

Thanks for posting this. Happy to see that there is now a plugin to do that!

I would love to hear what others think of that. Given that our mailing list is announcement-only right now, I’m still 100% for this change.

Additionally, as we would have a full Mozillians group, I think we could also handle the following through that:

  • Expiration after 12 months (might be more work than checking inactive Reps and removing them - thoughts welcome!)
  • Reps Agreement through the Mozillians group (like the NDA group) - if Legal is okay with that
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