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<p>Hi PSC, <br>
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<p>After the last very busy weeks with the french QGIS FR days (cool
event, I'll make a summary when I find some time) , I finally
wrote an announce for Discourse migration. <br>
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<p>I plan to send this, are you ok with it ? <br>
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<p>I'll reach SAC to announce a more precise calendar before sending
it to all the lists. <br>
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<p>Topic: Mailing lists to Discourse migration for QGIS<br>
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<p>Hi all, <br>
as you may know, we traditionally use a lot mailing lists in QGIS
project. <br>
<br>
All those mailing lists are server by mailman, a venerable piece
of code written by Richard Stallman. Those mailing lists are
hosted by OSGEO team. <br>
Mailman is end of life and all FOSS project are looking to its
successor (see [0] for GNOME project) .<br>
Additionally, mailing lists are not used anymore by younger folks.
<br>
Reason are numerous, from competition with instant messenger
tools, the lack of a nice responsive interface, difficulty to
search and explore mails on the web, or simply because the
monopolistic Outlook client does not make it easy to use mailing
list correctly. <br>
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<p>OSGEO team has deployed Discourse instance and after 4 months of
tests with some early adopter, we think the project is mature
enough to start discussing about migrating QGIS's lists.<br>
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<p><br>
## What is Discourse ? <br>
<br>
Discourse [1] is an open source only project built to support
community discussions, started in 2013 and thought to address the
gap between dying mailing list, forums and the rising instant
messenger tools dragging all discussions into private and
locked-in spaces.<br>
<br>
It allows advanced moderation, advanced notification settings, and
is thought to streamline discussions. <br>
<br>
It is already used by tons of community projects, you probably
already know it, from Gnome to Mozilla.<br>
<br>
Want to have a look ? The already migrated lists are there :
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://discourse.osgeo.org/">https://discourse.osgeo.org/</a> <br>
<br>
## What are the benefits of using Discourse ?<br>
<br>
It is searchable on the web, and can be explored lot better than
our mailman archives.<br>
<br>
It is extremely easy to subscribe to a category. No more need to
have one subscription per list.<br>
<br>
Receiving mails and answering from your mail client is fully
supported. <br>
<br>
You can copy paste images, videos, code and can react via emojis.
<br>
<br>
There is a basic instant chat, based on matrix. We prefer at this
stage to use a dedicated channel to avoid confusion. (We are
already present on IRC and Matrix - see [3] )<br>
<br>
## What if I prefer mailing lists ? <br>
<br>
See Mozilla's tutorial :<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/how-do-i-use-discourse-via-email/15279">https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/how-do-i-use-discourse-via-email/15279</a><br>
<br>
## What calendar and steps for this migration ? <br>
<br>
We plan to ask System Administration Committee to : <br>
<br>
- Import mailing list history into QGIS general category, and
triple check we have all the history<br>
- Announce the several times for a month we are going to switch,
and ask everyone to create an account on Discourse via OSGEO LDAP
connector. Channels will be lists themselves, blog, QGIS desktop
feed, and asks for communities and user groups to relay in their
dedicated channels.<br>
- Do some tutorials around how to handle notifications and
advanced options<br>
- Do the switch<br>
- Put old mailing list in archive mode with disclaimers. <br>
<br>
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[0]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://discourse.gnome.org/t/common-questions-re-mailman-to-discourse/11841">https://discourse.gnome.org/t/common-questions-re-mailman-to-discourse/11841</a>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.discourse.org/">https://www.discourse.org/</a><br>
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