I created This Week in Rust and also spearheaded the transition to Discourse (including all the initial setup + admin). You _can_ interact with discourse through email, but it's somewhat clunky. Definitely less pleasant than
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017, at 14:37, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > Activity log: It would be nice if this helped users see what is being > funded by the dev fund, cloud, etc. > > Discourse: I wouldn't mind if this replaced mailing lists in the end. It > seems mailing list archives can be imported and you can also interact with > it through email. > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Aaron Carlisle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > For a developer forum/general questions Phabricator as a feature called > > Ponder https://secure.phabricator.com/ponder/ > > > > Aaron Carlisle > > > > Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist > > Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project > > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Werner <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > answers are inlined: > > > > > > > >> On 28. Aug 2017, at 14:27, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Proposal: alternate Monday meetings to be 10:00 and 18:00 Amsterdam > > > time. Drop the Sunday meetings. > > > > > > > > I like the alternating time idea, that should allow people from more > > > time zones to participate. > > > > Picking a right day is hard though - weekdays are good paid > > > contributors, weekends better for volunteers. > > > > > > > >> 1) Forums: (discourse) > > > >> https://internals.rust-lang.org/categories < > > > https://internals.rust-lang.org/categories> > > > > > > > > Some kind of developer focussed forum is helpful, I would think. Right > > > now, we’re abusing the bug tracker > > > > as forum: https://developer.blender.org/T46258 < > > > https://developer.blender.org/T46258> > > > > > > This looks like proper tracker use to me, focused design tasks for > > > planning is fine. > > > > > > There are a few times I've seen people try and use tracker more like a > > > forum for asking questions or submitting a patch which is really a > > > question about code. I don't think its much of a problem. > > > > > > Even so, could be nice to try out a forum for developers. > > > > > > > Discussions like this don’t work at all on IRC and not very well in > > > mailing lists. > > > > > > > >> 2) Weekly activity log > > > >> https://this-week-in-rust.org/ <https://this-week-in-rust.org/> > > > > > > > > Helpful, we should do that. > > > > > > While it would be nice, are people interested to write/manage this? > > > > > > Maybe best to do a trial-run for ~5 weeks or so, continue if it's working > > > out. > > > > > > >> 4) No mailing lists! > > > >> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2015-January/011558.html > > > >> > > > >> Now I don't think we need to drop mailing lists, but the forums and > > > activity log sound great. > > > >> Discourse also might help making our onboarding process better. > > > > > > > > If we use a web based forum, please let’s pick one that works well on > > > mobile devices > > > > (including the ones that are not the latest and greatest) and sends > > > server-side generated > > > > static HTML. Responding to email on a smartphone is quick and easy and > > > works even when > > > > you have a terrible connection. “Modern” HTML pages sometimes require > > > several MB > > > > just to display essentially a couple of paragraphs of text. > > > > > > > > For example, one of the forums I visit sometimes runs on nodeBB. Just > > > the forum start page > > > > comes in at 1.17MB. That’s ridiculous and I pretty much never read it > > on > > > my phone. BA, even > > > > with the features images, is only half as big, simple phpBB sites come > > > in at 300kB. Plain text > > > > contents of these pages is just a few kB, the rest is mostly decoration > > > and oh-so-useful features > > > > nobody uses. > > > > > > > > I know, we need to have fast connections to begin with (wouldn’t want > > to > > > git clone over GPRS) > > > > but I like to make my time on the road useful too. From here to BConf > > is > > > roughly 7 hours on a train > > > > that promises WIFI but doesn’t always deliver. Don’t want to let that > > > time go to waste. > > > > > > > > > > Did you look into https://try.discourse.org ? > > > > > > > -Stefan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > - Campbell > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- cmr http://octayn.net/ +16038524272 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
