[SeasonOfDocs] Email list research

[Sanket Totewar]

Sounds good. I have meetings with my internal support teams that have used
Google Groups and a bunch of developers that have explored GitHub
discussions so I'll share their feedback in a few days.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:25 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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