<div dir="ltr"><div>I've been doing a little more digging into GitHub Discussions.</div><div><br></div><div>Good:</div><div><br></div><div>* hosted and free (at the moment)<br></div><div>* you can align them with organisational teams, which would mean we could have one list for website discussion, another one for PSC etc. <br></div><div>* definitely searchable, but it's a little early to tell how manageable they are going to be with a large number of messages. <br></div><div>* not needing any additional logins- people
helping with the project will need a github login anyway so we're not
asking them to sign up to anything extra</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bad things:</div><div>* There's also no explicit statement on archiving them, potentially they will survive as long as the organisation does. <br></div><div>* They might transition to being a paid-for function at some point</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not wedded to them, but it appeals to my sense of neatness to keep everything together :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Jo<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 1:32 PM Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_2702950145621123617moz-cite-prefix">On 31/7/19 7:21 pm, Jo Cook wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2">Sanket, expanding on what I think requirements
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<p><font size="2">* For long term sustainability it is important to
keep things as simple and low maintenance as possible.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">* We want conversations archived and searchable
(by google is ok). Eg: </font><br>
<font size="2"><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/2019-July/thread.html" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/2019-July/thread.html</a></font></p>
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