PSC Vote: Let's move this list to discourse

[Martin Spott]

Sandro Santilli wrote:

> Did we find out a way to get mailing list subscribers into the
> discourse system automatically ? Mailman users each have some form of
> "account" (they do have a password they can use to edit Mailman
> settings) - could Mailman authentication be used to log into Discourse ?

I suspect it would be preferred to take the opposite direction and not to
introduce yet another authentication service. The Postorious frontend to
Mailman3 has sort of veritable user-accounts:

  ~$ echo ".dump auth_user" | sqlite3 /var/lib/mailman3/web/mailman3web.db

and you can even plug in an LDAP backend:

  https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/132#note_21045322

Don't get me wrong, this is not a vote in favour of retiring this list for
Discourse. I would just like to remind you how long it took to free the Wiki
from its standalone authentication.

Best regards,

	Martin
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 Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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