Moving your mailing list to OSGeo Discourse

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If you want to move your mailing list perhaps that is currently hosted on OSGeo Mailman to OSGeo Discourse, please put in a trac ticket – OSGeo

Although our main focus is OSGeo mailman, any mailing list where you can offer a mbox for can be imported into discourse, and if you don’t care about your old archives, you can just start fresh in discourse and let your users know the new location.

There are 2 types of moves we currently offer:

  • Option 1: Have discourse be a READ ONLY mirror. No one will be
    able to use discourse except for searching in this mode (and getting
    notified of new items). All interaction still happens on your original list.
    Currently in this mode it appears people are still able to reply to posts via email and admins can also reply via the interface as well, but it goes to discourse only and not your mailing list, so use this option with caution, as it may confuse some people subscribed to the discourse mirror.

    How does this work:
    We take a snapshot of the archives, port it to discourse,
    and have discourse subscribe to the mailman list moving forward so it
    can continue to receive postings.

    This is for example the state sac-mailing-list is in -
    SAC mailing list - OSGeo Discourse

  • Option 2: Move to discourse completely. In this scenario, we take a final
    snapshot of your mailing list (if you are not on OSGeo mailman, we’d need a backup of your mboxes to bring over the history), for OSGeo mailman, we have access to all the lists, so don’t need you to provide anything aside from approval.

    Everyone on list should be sent a final note, to go to https://discourse.osgeo.org
    to login and set their preferences accordingly and watch the new list.

    Your mailing list will then be turned off.

    The new list will have a new email address your old list name@discourse.osgeo.org which is how people that prefer to email will send
    mail moving forward.

    Note even after the old mailing list is shut-off we plan to keep the archives unless you state otherwise.

    If you are unsure exactly what you want to do, it’s fairly easy to
    transition from Option 1 to Option 2, however it’s very difficult to go
    from Option 2 back to Option 1 mostly because of the annoyance of telling
    people “We’re moving back”.

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