GSIP 225
Migrate geoserver-users email list to discourse.osgeo.org group.
Jody Garnett
This proposal is for GeoServer 2.26.
- Under Discussion
- In Progress
- Completed
- Rejected
- Deferred
Offer forum for geoserver-users discussion and questions, while maintaining email experience for those who desire.
- Ease of use: sign-in using credentials you already have on hand
- Deduplication: Forum workflow allows questions to stay answered, rather than repeated
- Alternative to email list
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Setup https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/geoserver/geoserver-users discourse.
Initial content obtain via export of SourceForge mbox to preserve project history (although SourceForge strips exact email address to respect privacy laws).
Associate a user geoserver-users@osgeo.org with the group, so that email sent to this address is added to the discourse group. This preserves the email list workflow.
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Update website GeoServer Community instructions.
Instructions should cover our code of conduct, use of geoserver-users, and how to sign up as an email list.
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During transition the SourceForge email list footer will provide instructions on how to change.
This mailing list has moved to https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/geoserver-users Visit https://geoserver.org/comm/ for instructions on our new forum, and use of geoserver-users@osgeo.org as an email list.
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The SourceForge email list will be archived after 1-2 months, corresponding with release of GeoServer 2.26.0 for maximum visibility.
At this time the SourceForge email list will be archived, and a second import of the SourceForge mbox will occur collecting a diff of any email sent during the transition period.
Existing subscribers of geoserver-users@sourceforge.net will need to join https://discourse.staging.osgeo.org/g/geoserver-users group to send/recieve email from geoserver-users@osgeo.org as an email list.
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This proposal improves geoserver-users accessibility, but does change the story for engagement by existing developers, or attracting additional developer resources.
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OSM took about a month to make the transition.
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Does it really matter about a forum?
- The geoserver-users email list has 961 subscribers / 6,1577 messages presently, while
- gis.stackexchange.com #geoserver has similar level of activity with 5,890 "questions".
Project Steering Committee:
- Alessio Fabiani:
- Andrea Aime: +1
- Ian Turton: +0
- Jody Garnett: +1 Initial Motion
- Jukka Rahkonen: +1
- Kevin Smith:
- Simone Giannecchini: +0
- Torben Barsballe:
- Nuno Oliveira:
- Peter Smythe:
- System Admin Committee: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3104
- Staging: https://discourse.staging.osgeo.org/c/geoserver-users if you wish to preview the forum experience.
- Staging group: https://discourse.staging.osgeo.org/g/geoserver-users join this group if you wish to preview the email experience.
- Mastodon advice and encouragement
- Working text for refining: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP%E2%80%90225%E2%80%90working