Debian discusses Discourse

Much of the free software we run every day was developed over email, and the developers of that software, who may have been using email for decades, tend to be somewhat attached to it. The newer generation of developers that came later, though, has proved remarkably resistant to the charms of email-based communication. That has led to an ongoing push to replace email with other forms of communication; often the "other form" of choice is a web-based system called Discourse. Moving to Discourse tends to be controversial; LWN covered related discussions in the Fedora and Python projects in 2018. Now it is Debian's turn to confront this question.

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