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

[Anna Petrášová]

Happy New Year everyone!
I agree we can discuss that during the meeting, although it would be good
for everyone to read through the OSGeo discussion first so that we can
have a more informed discussion during the PSC meeting. Generally, I would
be in favor of completely migrating, because the mailing lists have issues
the new platform mostly solves and it looks more modern, so better for new
users. It opens a bunch of questions, though, e.g. do we want to migrate
all our mailing lists, do we want to ask on mailing lists what people want
first, what would be the role of our other channels (GitHub Discussions,
Gitter). Even with the new forum (which you can still use as a mailing
list), GitHub Discussions make sense in some cases I think, since you can
easily migrate issues to a discussion or the other way. Gitter may be more
useful for events as code sprints, when actual chat happens.

Best,
Anna

On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 10:53 AM Veronica Andreo via grass-psc <
grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After reading all the emails on this topic (which funnily enough are split
> here and there and not in the same thread), I think there's no rush to
> decide. I have put it on the agenda for our February PSC meeting.
>
> What Luca says sounds interesting if indeed it allows people to get
> everything on the mailing list and answer from there. In general, however,
> I tend to agree with Markus that we should avoid too much fragmentation. In
> the end, it's only a bunch of us usually answering over already too many
> platforms.
>
> Anyway, let's see how this evolves for projects already in discourse and
> discuss the topic during our next meeting. What do you think?
>
> Have a great entrance to 2024! Cheers!
>
> Vero
>
> El sáb, 30 dic 2023 a las 12:23, Luca Delucchi via grass-psc (<
> grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org>) escribió:
>
>>
>>
>> Il sab 30 dic 2023, 13:50 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> ha scritto:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Yes right, mailman-3 and discourse seems to have the same features but
>> SAC (I have no idea why) choose  Discourse
>>
>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>
>> Ciao
>> Luca
>>
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