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

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi Tony,

we know about mailman3 rewrite. from the tests of SAC and other 
projects, it was not conclusive.

About keeping both system, this is the best way to fragment a bit more 
our community, which already is dispersed through too many channels. 
This is the problem we want to fix here.   This is a hard requirement in 
this move, ie stay DRY.

Gnome, Mozilla and Ubuntu are all fighting against the same issue. We 
try to clarify which should be the official channels, and still want to 
offer communication means that are really used. From my perspective, I 
use Discourse mainly by mail, and have the additionnal possibility of 
using the web UI to write markdown , add images and color syntaxed code. 
I woud not see the benefit of having to "also" keep monitoring other 
mailing lists.


Cheers

On 04/04/2024 01:07, Tony Bazeley via QGIS-User wrote:
> 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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