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<p>Hi everyone,<br>
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Thanks Valentin for raising this discussion.</p>
<p>I also think migrating to Discourse is a good idea. <br>
<br>
I had the chance to experience the migration of the GNOME
project from a mailing list to discourse, and it was a complete
success. In particular: <br>
- It allowed many people who found subscribing to a mailing list
too complicated to join the discussion (please, don’t try to
rationalize this. Yes, for some people, especially newcomers,
subscribing to a mailing list really is difficult)<br>
- It created new discussions between project developers and
users. By users, I mean people who have lots of ideas or
feedback for the project but would never have created a GitHub
account</p>
<p>For more information, here’s some feedback from the GNOME
project:</p>
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<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><br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://discourse.gnome.org/t/sub-categories/11733/6?u=trim">https://discourse.gnome.org/t/sub-categories/11733/6?u=trim</a></p>
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<p>I also want to point out that it’s totally possible to use
Discourse directly from an email client. That’s one of
Discourse’s strengths. <br>
See for example:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://discourse.gnome.org/t/interacting-with-discourse-via-email/46">https://discourse.gnome.org/t/interacting-with-discourse-via-email/46</a><br>
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<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></p>
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<p>Cheers,<br>
Jean</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 09/03/2026 à 21:17, Valentin Buira
via QGIS-PSC a écrit :<br>
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<div>Hi PSC,</div>
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<div>As per my email subject, I would like to know more about
the status of the migrating mailing list to OSGeo discourse,
as it was announced almost two years ago on this mailing
list [1]</div>
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<div>mailman is a venerable piece of software that has
served us well for the past 10 years, but the quality of
life improvements everywhere else has made mailman pale in
comparison of what a 2026 collaborative platform could be. I
think it's a good time to study the possibility of migrating
to discourse again. </div>
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In random order a list of defavor argument for mailman and
favor argument for discourse:
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<div>* Answering to an email is super tedious, I don't have a
mail client installed on my computer and I found two
workaround this: </div>
<div> - use the developer tools of my browser to find the
right reply-to email. </div>
<div> - Or write the email first, then browse from my phone
the web interface for the right mail to answer to and
finally click on it as my gmail app acts as a mail client.
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<div>* No search function out of the box we have to rely on
external service like : <a href="http://mail-archive.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mail-archive.com</a> it's
fine if you have been in the project for 10 years but if you
join recently there is a loss of informations. </div>
<div>* Sometimes I want to answer a really old topic, but I
don't because I don't want to pollute everybody else
mailbox. Discourse handles long-tail discussions more
cleanly via threading</div>
<div>* This one is a bit subjective BUT to me the current web
interface looks like a scam website</div>
<div>* Emojis support in discourse (I think they light up the
mood sometimes ) </div>
<div>* Blender, Gnome, Mozilla, pg-routing have all adopted
it, and have not looked back. </div>
<div>* Mobile support in discourse</div>
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<div>Last time the discussion came up, I feel like the
arguments were really one sided, that's why I would like to
open up the discussion again. </div>
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<div>I understand the concerns about the migration, and if we
don't want to dive in right away maybe we could have an
experiment period of 6 months? Keep both side by side, give
it a try, and I am convinced the concerns will fade
quickly. </div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Valentin</div>
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<div>[1] <a
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2024-April/066662.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2024-April/066662.html</a></div>
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