[Board] Mailing lists interface

[Regina Obe]

I’m not familiar with the benefits of Mailman 3 over Mailman 2.  

There has been recent discussion about the difficulty some people have with using mailing lists.

Many people seem to prefer a forum like system over a mailing list system.  One suggestion that gained much applause in this regard is discourse which many FOSS systems seem to prefer over mailing lists.  Only issue with it is the ease to bridge the gap between our mailing lists and discourse. 

Discourse does seem like it can work as both a forum and a mailing list type setup:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-new-topic-via-email/62977

 

Is it okay to stratify discussion like this, given that the mailing list system works for many, but we could garner a bigger crowd with discourse?

 

Some FOSS systems that were mentioned using discourse

 

https://community.opendronemap.org/

 

https://forum.orfeo-toolbox.org/

 

https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/

 

 

 

From: Board [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett via Board
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 2:22 PM
To: Pierre Cardinal <pierre.cardinal at sympatico.ca>
Cc: osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Board] Mailing lists interface

 

Pierre:

 

Not a board member here, but you are welcome to propose the idea of using Mailman 3 to the system committee at https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo

 

OSGeo if volunteer driven, so if you have any experience to assist with migration it would be very welcome.


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Jody Garnett

 

 

On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 09:48, Pierre Cardinal via Board <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org> > wrote:

Hi,

 

Since the announcement of the shutting down of Nabble, does the OSGeo board did something to replace it ?  Without a friendly interface, it is difficult to users to communicate with each other. To keep the old mailing lists, why the OSGeo does not use Mailman 3 ? 

 

Regards,

 

Pierre Cardinal

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