On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
I assume many have muted or are ignoring the "thankspam" thread, but it has changed topic rather meaningfully, and I think it deserves broader attention.
I see now why Discourse is a problem...
I wanted to install it, so we could test it and then move to a WMF server. I wasn't fully demotivated after I've seen it's written in Ruby (nothing against syntax, but on infrastructure side it's easier to install .NET framework on Linux). Then they say the only way they support installation is via Docker.
No, thanks.
They obviously need to mature and produce a sensible framework for software installation. Until then, good old Mailman is our most realistic solution.