[Qgis-psc] [Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

[Julien Moura (Oslandia)]

Hi Régis and PSC,

Great news and exciting evolution for QGIS community! Thanks for the 
underlying work along with the OSGeo tech team.

On my side, I think it's a good evolution to make the project more 
reachable for classic end-users and an honest trade-off for long-live 
dev/tech users since Discourse can behave as a a mailing list too.

I hope that will help to reduce QGIS communication channels and look 
forward to see every related event and discussions live on Discourse.

Regards,
Julien

On 03/04/2024 21:14, Régis Haubourg via QGIS-User wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> Of course you are free to react !
> I'm interested in understanding why you feel this would reduce 
> engagement.
> I've been testing Discourse a lot in the past years. From french 
> spaces around open data and numeric commons, to a first test with QGIS 
> french user lists.
> What I have observed is :
> - new users jump in more easily than with our obscure mailing list habits.
> - I just don't see any usage difference once I changed my settings 
> from the default digest setting to "one mail per interaction"
> - it is a lot easier to subscribe to a category than to subscribe in 
> mailman to a new mailing list.
> - finding topics via search engine is so much more normal. Remember we 
> needed Nabble to offer this and it was not an easy experience. And 
> Nabble died.
> - as a list administror, mailman backoffice interface does not make it 
> easy. It has been designed in the early stages of the web. This is so 
> hard to understand, read and maintain. And don't try on a phone.
>
> On the downsides, I just had to explore notification settings and 
> understand how categories work a bit more than I would have expected. 
> But a lot less time than the numerous hours struggling with mailman 
> admin interfaces.
>
> So if you have tangible ideas or facts we are really interested.  
> Discourse is open source and really full of features, settings or 
> plugins to tune it to our needs.
>
> Cheers
> Régis
>
> Le mer. 3 avr. 2024, 17:34, Greg Troxel via QGIS-User 
> <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
>
>     Régis Haubourg via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> writes:
>
>     > With this move, we hope that we can counter the current
>     fragmentation
>     > and streamline our discussions. Please fell free to react.
>
>     I'm unhappy about this, as I suspect are others who have been in the
>     Free Software world a long time.  I expect that this will lead to
>     reduced engagement by the longer-term-FS people.  Part of this is that
>     tools that encourage post-and-only-see-answers lead to a help desk
>     feeling that than a community.
>
>     I don't expect to be listened to in any serious way, but you said
>     "feel
>     free to react" :-)
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