Please enable Gihub Discussions

[laeubi]

It was discussed on the mailinglist to use GH-discussions as there are +3 votes ( @laeubi , @mickaelistria and @HannesWell ) and no negative vote I'd like to propose to

• enable GH Discussions, AKAIK the projectlead must enable this @akurtakov has done this for tycho already, maybe he can explain a bit more on how to do it?
• send a notification to the https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/m2e-users that we have switched

[fbricon]

Discussions have been enabled.

[HannesWell]

Is somebody taking care of sending a message to m2e-users and closing it for writes, so the transition can be completed?

[vogella]

Is somebody taking care of sending a message to m2e-users and closing it for writes, so the transition can be completed?

@mickaelistria can you do this? I think you have done this also for Tycho.

[akurtakov]

Mickael is off this week. Someone else will have to handle it.

[HannesWell]

Mickael is off this week. Someone else will have to handle it.

Mickael seems to be back. :)

[HannesWell]

We still have to disable the m2e-user mailing-list.

How can the Mailing-List be disabled? If this only requires an EF-Helpdesk request and a final E-Mail I can do that.
Is there a template/best-practice for the announcement E-Mail?

[vogella]

Is the mailing list not necessary for committer election?

[HannesWell]

Is the mailing list not necessary for committer election?

Committer elections are done at the m2e-dev mailing list (which is the reason that list has to stay), the m2e-user list is/was only used for users questions.

[mickaelistria]

Before closing the m2e-users mailing-list, someone needs to announce that GitHub discussions are now preferred. I'm personally not subscribed to this ML, so I won't be able to do it.
Once the annouce is on, we can open a ticket to Eclipse Foundation helpdesk to ask the mailing-list ot be made read-only.

[HannesWell]

Before closing the m2e-users mailing-list, someone needs to announce that GitHub discussions are now preferred. I'm personally not subscribed to this ML, so I won't be able to do it.

Done: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/m2e-users/msg05899.html

[HannesWell]

Not yet completely done, but created the help-desk issue to close the list:
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/1306

[HannesWell]

Not yet completely done, but created the help-desk issue to close the list: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/1306

The list has been closed.