[SAC] [OSGeo] #2306: forum software with GitHub login question

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#2306: forum software with GitHub login question
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 Reporter:  jive      |       Owner:  sac@…
     Type:  task      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:
Component:  SysAdmin  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by gsteinmon):

 Hey folks,

 at the FOSS4GNA event last week, I was approached about this topic. I
 can't remember the person who approached me, but this mailing list issue
 really stuck with me.

 The issue as it was presented to me:
 - We are using an old version of Mailman that relies on Python 2 which is
 no longer supported.
 - We used to use Nabble to help organize our mailing lists into searchable
 forums
 - We can get both the mailing list and forum experience by moving to
 discourse
 - Other OSS projects have made the move and there is tooling around
 porting existing mailing lists to discourse

 Based on this explanation and my [[https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/how-
 do-i-use-discourse-via-email/15279|own googling]] I think this makes a lot
 of sense.

 Is there anything I can do to help?

 -Guido


 Replying to [comment:13 robe]:
 > Hmm this is 4 years old and no traction..
 >
 > I think we had this discussion on osgeo general (matrix/libera chat) or
 perhaps SAC.
 >
 > There are two approaches to this
 >
 > 1. is to upgrade our lists.osgeo.org to newest 3 series.  I think that
 has some discourse like offerings.  I need to upgrade osgeo6 anyway or
 reset lists.osgeo.org in a container.  So I'll probably explore this first
 and see if the features are good enough to not need discourse
 >
 > 2.  As far as discourse, I think the community was split, many enjoy the
 mailing list approach and admittedly, I'm on that side of the fence.  Some
 people said they were worried about the community being torn between
 mailing lists and discourse and having two places to check for
 conversation.  Kind of the same reason why when I proposed a PostGIS (Q&A
 on github), I was met with "Why the heck would we want to do that"
 >
 > Personally I like the mailing list model a bit better, probably cause
 I'm a dinosaur.
 >
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