[Tagging] Time to split the list?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Dian Ågesson wrote:
> Until a better communication platform is introduced, I would like
> to suggest splitting this mailing list into different audiences

There's work going on at the moment to set up an (OSMF-hosted) Discourse instance at community.openstreetmap.org.

This will provide a flexible discussion platform capable of replacing help.openstreetmap.org (which runs on outdated, unmaintained software), and of hosting the type of discussions which would really benefit from being easily searchable - not one of Mailman's great strengths, particularly since Google has stopped indexing a lot of mailing list content. It's really hard to find old OSM discussions these days - Google just doesn't index them - and that impacts the tagging@ list more than others.

With that in mind I think it would be a shame to rework this list only a few months before we have a better alternative available. I don't have a view (and I don't think OSMF has taken a view) on what happens to individual lists after Discourse is made available. If anyone really does want to have the discussion about which platform is best, I'd suggest talk@ is a better venue for that discussion than tagging at .

Richard
occasional tagging@ list admin
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