[Qgis-psc] Status on migrate our mailing lists to Discourse ?
Régis Haubourg
regis at qgis.org
Fri Mar 13 10:13:11 PDT 2026
Hi all, and thanks a lot Valentin for pushing up the topic.
I wanted to take the task in 2025, but 2025 was not the year.
We already did a migration for a very small QGIS FR mailing list, and
already know this can work. There were a couple of issues regarding the
mailing list mode that didn't work fully as expected, and regarding how
topics and labels are used in osgeo's instance.
It is time to tackle those issues properly.
And yes, I have currently to handle 5 different email accounts, and
change a lot of mailman's discussions and am in terrible pain
maintaining all those mailing lists and finding old content.
On last point, mailman 2 is end of life, and osgeo choose to bet on
discourse more that mailman3, just like many projects out there. I
totally support this move obviously. I am following 3 of such projects
and use email mailing list, or weekly digests, and am totally satisfied
up to now.
Cheers
Régis
est regards,
Régis Haubourg
Elected member at the Program Steering Comitee of QGIS.org.
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On 13/03/2026 12:54, Marco Bernasocchi via QGIS-PSC wrote:
> 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.
/s/discord/discourse ;-)
>
> 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
>> <http://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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