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

[Greg Troxel]

Tony Bazeley via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

> 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.

That's a great point, and I should have been clearer: I am not at all
opposed to new things, especially those targeting adding help channels
for people to ask questions.  But this is billed as removing the mailing
lists.

> 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" 

A great question.  A quick search turned up no such EOL idea.  The last
maintenance release is just under 6 months ago, which is normal for
reasonably stable software.