[Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

[Tony Bazeley]

I'm not against new communication channels, but imagine the maximum benefit 
would be obtained by adding a discourse channel while keeping the mailing list 
channel, and perhaps reviewing use after a period of time.

And just BTW, Mailman has just completed an upgrade to a major new version so 
I'd be interested to learn the basis of claims for "end of life" 

On Thursday 4 April 2024 8:53:47 AM ACDT Greg Troxel via QGIS-User wrote:
> What I meant mostly is two things:
> 
>     People like me tend not to be happy about things turning into forums
>   and are likely to participate less.  As an example, openstreetmap
>   moved from mailinglists to forums and I have not, so I interract far
>   far less and spend more time on other things.  I am probably somewhat
>   unusual (started doing email in the 70s), and here probably only strk
>   thinks I"m normal :-)
> 
>     My perception, perhaps off base, is that discourse facilitates
>   people showing up, posting a question, and getting replies to the
>   question, without also getting delivered to them everything else on
>   the "mailing list".  Thus I expect a lot more help desk type
>   interactions, where new people ask a question and don't really engage,
>   rather than joining the community.
>     Many projects have communities of long-term participants who get to
>   know each other.  Partly from on-list, but partly from off-list
>   converstations which are enabled by getting emails with the other
>   person's email address.  I don't see this happening in a discourse
>   world.  I'm not arguing there are no mechanisms and that people could
>   not make it happen.  I am saying that I expect it to happen much less
>   in practice.
> 
> I don't have any good ideas about the first pointl.
> 
> The second point could be addressed by allowing web signup, but allowing
> posting only if one has email delivery of all messages, and having the
> From: address be the person, and not breaking DKIM signatures.   In
> short, having the email interface be a first-class non-broken
> mailinglist, while also having a forum view.
> 
> (I've dropped psc because it doesn't allow non-members to send.)
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