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

[Valentin Buira]

> No email client ??? Ha ha, yes then a mailing list is not a thing for
> you :-)

Well before your mail and the one from Alessandro I thought it was pretty
normal haha.
But that's exactly my point if it's not for me that have been using it for
~2 years, then it's probably also excluding some newcomers to join-in

> But all this is personal: I'm not following Geoserver discussions
> anymore because of their move

Have you tried the "Mailing list mode" of discourse in preferences > emails
? It allows you to use discourse like today's mailing list, and you can
view and  reply to a thread directly from your mail.

Could it be the best of both worlds ? The magic settings that bridge the
gap between generations :-) ?

> at least mail archives have mail from 10 year. Try that with other (non
> federated) services?

It is impressive, that got me thinking maybe we could import this valuable
institutional knowledge over discourse during the migration ?

Cheers,
Valentin



Le mar. 10 mars 2026 à 09:00, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> a
écrit :

> No email client ??? Ha ha, yes then a mailing list is not a thing for
> you :-)
>
> I think the purpose of mailing lists can be two-fold:
>
> - as an information source / archive
> - as a (direct) communication channel
>
> To me all my mailing lists (GDAL, PROJ, (geoserver... gone), 4xQGIS) end
> up in one mailbox, perfectly searchable with an mail client.
> And I'm checking mail all day, so the best way to communicatie with me
> is mail (or chat).
>
> Your case that information gets lost is valid, but to be honest: at
> least mail archives have mail from 10 year. Try that with other (non
> federated) services?
>
> Maybe for users (who do not communicatie with each other on regular
> bases), a forum is good?
> But for (transparent) communication between people, I't say a mailing
> list is better?
>
> So my 2 ct:
> I'd say: the user list is more suitable for a forum then the dev list?
> ( I do not think I would check discourse as often as I do my mails, in
> my client :-) )
> But all this is personal: I'm not following Geoserver discussions
> anymore because of their move, but maybe I can get used to checking
> discourse every day if QGIS also moves...
>
> I'll try to follow :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
> On 2026-03-09 21:17, Valentin Buira via QGIS-PSC wrote:
> > 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 [1] 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
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] http://mail-archive.com
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