[GRASS-PSC] [OSGeo-Discuss] Mailing lists to discourse migration

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:50 AM Luca Delucchi via grass-psc
<grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> For what I can see with the discourse instance of OpenStreetMap where we created a category for Italian
> discussion there are only pros to have discourse instead mailman since:
> - people used to use mailing list can continue to answer via email
> - people used to write via forum con use this way
> - archive is searchable

(my answer copied also here from osgeo-discuss list)

Just to add to the options we (theoretically) have:

With an upgrade from mailman-2 to mailman-3 we could also have a
searchable archive. See for example:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/
which (not surprisingly) looks much more modern than the old mailman-2 on OSGeo.

> For my little usage I don't see any cons to move from mailman to Discourse, however as Jody said every community can choose their own tool to communicate

Let me suggest to avid too much fragmentation. This will not help to
get people more engaged.

Markus