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.) > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-User mailing list > QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ QGIS-User mailing list QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
