Launchpad mailing lists going away

[Posted May 28, 2025 by jzb]

Canonical's Launchpad software-collaboration platform that is used for Ubuntu development will be shutting down its hosted mailing lists at the end of October. The announcement recommends Discourse or Launchpad Answers as alternatives. Ubuntu's mailing lists are unaffected by the change.

Discourse

Posted May 28, 2025 16:40 UTC (Wed) by npws (subscriber, #168248) [Link] (3 responses)

I never really knew what Discourse was, so went to their site to check it out, and OMG. I've seen that thing before on multiple other sites, but to me that doesn't look like a proper replacement for mailing lists, it looks more like some self made PHP forum from the early 2000s. Is there anything I'm missing?

Discourse

Posted May 28, 2025 17:05 UTC (Wed) by calvin (subscriber, #168398) [Link]

It has functioning mailing list mode IIRC (as in, receive and reply to messages entirely through mail).

It's funny you make the PHP forum comparison because Discourse is pretty alien to those (except for Vanilla, which was pretty close to it in spirit). The phpBB et al grognards will probably grumble at it.

Discourse

Posted May 29, 2025 18:55 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link] (1 responses)

I have found Discourse to be quite usable if I disable Javascript. Much more so than with Javascript enabled. That was a pleasant surprise.

Discourse

Posted May 30, 2025 8:31 UTC (Fri) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

Usually Discourse just doesn't show up at all with Javascript disabled so I assume that is the mode you are referring to?

Ubuntu community ?

Posted May 29, 2025 8:45 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (3 responses)

Is Ubuntu still a community distro this day ?
It always seem like Canonical is calling all the shot.

Ubuntu community ?

Posted May 29, 2025 8:51 UTC (Thu) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (1 responses)

Was it ever? Only Universe repository was allowed to be touched by community.

Ubuntu community ?

Posted May 30, 2025 17:55 UTC (Fri) by jbicha (subscriber, #75043) [Link]

That's a ridiculous claim. Canonical is happy to have community contributors for Ubuntu.

As with any large project, proposed changes need to be in line with the vision of the maintainers. For instance, you couldn't show up and then immediately propose switching the default Ubuntu Desktop text editor from gnome-text-editor to kate and expect that your change would be accepted.

Ubuntu community ?

Posted May 31, 2025 19:04 UTC (Sat) by amarao (guest, #87073) [Link]

It's part of presale preparation for Microsoft.