Hi all,
given the growing complexity of maintaining a mailing list and keeping
it up to spec - I think it's a good idea to focus the energy of this
community on the things that matter most.
I've been reading how removing the mailing list would be as treating the
mail-community as second class citizens. Currently, anyone tangently
interested in the ongoings — will need to follow the Discourse AND the
mailing list. Since these aren't mirrors, they contain different
content. One could argue that requiring mailing list for a small
percentage, is actually treating the discourse community as seconds
class citizens. Without even really being involved in the OSMF, even I
felt kind of insulted by the insinuation of laziness or malevolence. But
let's not go there and avoid that kind of drama.
This mailing list isn't up to technical standards (e.g. the unsubscribe
link is missing from the footer, which could be considered a
GDPR-violation — the DKIM-records aren't configured correctly causing
these mails to more likely land in spam in certain environments — and
that's just at first glance). I don't have the time or skills to
configure the server better myself. I also don't want to impose others
with these numbing tasks.
So while my lazy ass kinda enjoyed lurking the mailing list... I think
it would improve communications if every message was to be found in one
place and if it relieves some burden off volunteers, I'm all for that too.
To all the OSM-volunteers: thanks for all the great work you're doing
and doing your magic on those imports that aren't always as friendly to
OSM as we would want them to be.
Greetings,
Jurgen
P.S. Yes, I use em-dashed, this isn't an AI-generated text.
Op 6/06/2025 om 16:10 schreef Ian Dees:
Hi all,
I'm proposing that we decommission the imports mailing list in favor
of the OpenStreetMap Community forum. I will also update the import
guidelines wiki page [0] to point to the Community forum instead of
this mailing list.
I see that we receive occasional messages announcing imports, but they
rarely get any response or feedback.
If there are any objections, please reply to this thread, otherwise
I'll ask Grant to begin the archiving process in 7 days.
-Ian
[0]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Discuss_your_proposed_import
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