[Qgis-psc] Status on migrate our mailing lists to Discourse ?

[Valentin Buira]

Hi PSC,

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]

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.

In random order a list of defavor argument for mailman and favor argument
for discourse:

* Answering to an email is super tedious, I don't have a mail client
installed on my computer and I found two workaround this:
   -  use the developer tools of my browser to find the right reply-to
email.
   -  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.
* No search function out of the box we have to rely on external service
like : mail-archive.com it's fine if you have been in the project for 10
years but if you join recently there is a loss of informations.
* 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
* This one is a bit subjective BUT to me the current web interface looks
like a scam website
* Emojis support in discourse (I think they light up the mood sometimes )
* Blender, Gnome, Mozilla, pg-routing have all adopted it, and have not
looked back.
* Mobile support in discourse

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.

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.

Cheers,
Valentin

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2024-April/066662.html
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