PSC Vote: Let's move this list to discourse

[Jody Garnett]

For lists focused on public interaction like marketing it is an advantage
to have GitHub login (and others). We are a public service outreach
organization after all :)


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Jody Garnett


On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 8:42 AM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 03:10:48PM -0000, Martin Spott wrote:
>
> >   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.
>
> This is an important concern of mine too, enough that I've asked a few
> times already (but only in chat) to disable the "github login" that's
> currently enabled in Discourse. The reason why people want to keep that is
> to
> reduce friction of entry and it's usually mentioned as the reason that
> "you didn't need a LDAP account to subscribe to mailing lists" which
> is why I asked  here about using Mailman auth for Discourse.
>
> At this stage of things I'm perfectly happy with:
>
>   1. Disable non-LDAP login in Discourse (it's experimental, supposedly)
>   2. Enable LDAP login in Mailman3, if we install it
>
> The way I think we should deal with "easy of access" is reducing the
> friction required to get a LDAP account, and make a LDAP account not
> enough to grant too many permissions over too many services.
>
> --strk;
>
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