Multiple open source communities will discuss moving from mailing lists to forums

More and more open source projects are moving from mailing lists to forum-based discussion models to attract younger generations of developers.

The free software community is based on the decentralization technology of e-mail. Currently, email or email-based mailing lists are still at the core of many open source project workflows, but more and more projects are moving from mailing lists to Based on the discussion mode of the forum to attract younger generations of developers.

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller recently proposed moving the discussion of the project to Discourse. The developers pointed out different preferences for new and old developers: senior developers prefer mailing lists, but new developers prefer forums. Also, compared to forums, mail on mailing lists is difficult to manage and delete, and it is an advantage for supporters to erase.

On the other hand, the Python community also announced the migration from mailing lists to Discourse-based forums. Developers cited several advantages of the forum: mobile apps, moderators, mobile discussions, rich media support, syntax highlighting, dynamics Notifications also support emoji.

Migrating from a mailing list to a forum is easy, but moving back to the mailing list from the forum is difficult. The strategy for OpenMandriva to migrate to the forum has failed, but the project remains in the forum without returning to the mailing list.