[SeasonOfDocs] Email list research

[Jo Cook]

I've been doing a little more digging into GitHub Discussions.

Good:

* hosted and free (at the moment)
* you can align them with organisational teams, which would mean we could
have one list for website discussion, another one for PSC etc.
* definitely searchable, but it's a little early to tell how manageable
they are going to be with a large number of messages.
* not needing any additional logins- people helping with the project will
need a github login anyway so we're not asking them to sign up to anything
extra


Bad things:
* There's also no explicit statement on archiving them, potentially they
will survive as long as the organisation does.
* They might transition to being a paid-for function at some point

I'm not wedded to them, but it appeals to my sense of neatness to keep
everything together :-)

Jo



On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 1:32 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 31/7/19 7:21 pm, Jo Cook wrote:
>
>
>    -
>
>    Discussions- currently using an osgeo mailing list, requirement is for
>    hosted (let’s not maintain a server). Github discussions- not clear on
>    archiving, google groups- probably OK but how long are things archived?
>    Let’s discuss via email. ACTION: SANKET to do some research and start email
>    thread discussing requirements.
>
> Sanket, expanding on what I think requirements are:
>
> * For long term sustainability it is important to keep things as simple
> and low maintenance as possible.
>
> * We want conversations archived and searchable (by google is ok). Eg:
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/2019-July/thread.html
>
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