[Imports] Migrating Imports RFC to Community Forum

[Mike Thompson]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 1:14 AM James Crawford via Imports <
imports at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> b) Mailing lists may be difficult for some users to understand, given that
> it's an archaic technology that less and less new community members are
> familiar with.
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How specifically are mailing lists difficult to "understand"?  It is pretty
simple, if you want to say something, make sure you reply to the list, and
type your response.  That is it.  Nothing complicated.

c) Mailing lists aren't as representative of the international community.
> I've found that the mailing lists become a very small group of users that
> frequent the lists, and then that very small group of users have full
> oversight of affairs, which detracts from the ideals of an open project.
>
Do you have metrics on how many people are subscribed to the lists or are
you just going off of how many different people typically respond on a
given thread?  I am not sure that a "very small group of users have full
oversight", only that a small group of users speak up.  I suspect that a
lot of us just read the postings and seldom respond.  A bigger issue with
regards to imports is that I suspect that many imports are taking place
without following the established guidelines.


> d) Information can be presented and queried easier on the community forum.
> Discourse has tools available to provide information about the list, and
> it's so much easier to search and view history than the archives.
>
This seems like a reasonable argument in favor of the forum.

Mike

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