LWN: Comments on "Launchpad mailing lists going away"

Ubuntu community ?

amarao — Sat, 31 May 2025 19:04:45 +0000

It's part of presale preparation for Microsoft.

Ubuntu community ?

jbicha — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:55:18 +0000

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.

Discourse

taladar — Fri, 30 May 2025 08:31:35 +0000

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

Discourse

job — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:55:01 +0000

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

Ubuntu community ?

zdzichu — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:51:27 +0000

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

Ubuntu community ?

ballombe — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:45:57 +0000

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

Discourse

calvin — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:05:57 +0000

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

npws — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:40:35 +0000

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?