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

Fri Mar 13 04:54:48 PDT 2026

9Hi all thanks all for the inputs here, i am also totally on Valentin's
camp on trying to get read as much as i can of my emails. I also find ML
horrendous for trying to find something.
Anyway the good thing is that discourse allows interaction with it like if
it was a mailing list.

In fact the decision to migrate to discourse was already taken and planned
for 2025. We just had way too much happening in the psc for taking care of
this.

The plan is to first migrate the psc ml to learn how to efficiently do this.

We will move to the OSGeo.org discord like many other projects (and osgeo
itself is planning) are doing since osgeo will most likely not update
mailman anymore.

Obviously if someone is willing to help, just get in touch.

Cheers Marco

Marco Bernasocchi

QGIS.org Chair
OSGEO.org VP Europe
OPENGIS.ch CEO
http://berna.io

On Thu, 12 Mar 2026, 18:15 Denis Rouzaud via QGIS-PSC, <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> That'd be also a big +1 from me to go in a more modern and welcoming way
> It seems the path should not be too complex:
> https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/qgis/11
>
> Cheers,
> Denis
>
> Le jeu. 12 mars 2026 à 17:38, Jean Felder via QGIS-PSC <
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Thanks Valentin for raising this discussion.
>>
>> I also think migrating to Discourse is a good idea.
>>
>> I had the chance to experience the migration of the GNOME project from a
>> mailing list to discourse, and it was a complete success. In particular:
>> - It allowed many people who found subscribing to a mailing list too
>> complicated to join the discussion (please, don’t try to rationalize this.
>> Yes, for some people, especially newcomers, subscribing to a mailing list
>> really is difficult)
>> - It created new discussions between project developers and users. By
>> users, I mean people who have lots of ideas or feedback for the project but
>> would never have created a GitHub account
>>
>> For more information, here’s some feedback from the GNOME project:
>>
>> -
>> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/common-questions-re-mailman-to-discourse/11841
>> - https://discourse.gnome.org/t/sub-categories/11733/6?u=trim
>>
>>
>> I also want to point out that it’s totally possible to use Discourse
>> directly from an email client. That’s one of Discourse’s strengths.
>> See for example:
>> - https://discourse.gnome.org/t/interacting-with-discourse-via-email/46
>> - https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/how-do-i-use-discourse-via-email/15279
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jean
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 09/03/2026 à 21:17, Valentin Buira via QGIS-PSC a écrit :
>>
>> 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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