> On 3 Mar 2017, at 22:20, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/ > They offer free hosting to open source projects if the repo has more than > 30 contributors and 2000+ stars. > > We have 55 contributors and 214 stars. We could make a campaign to get more > stars :)
It could be interesting but I think we'd be better off hosting it ourselves since that allows us more control: plugins we install, config, etc. Now it would certainly relieve us from some maintenance such as upgrades! A campaign to get more stars wouldn't hurt anyway ;) Thanks -Vincent > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 to try it out. >> >> Thanks, >> Marius >> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> I’m proposing to vote for moving away from our users and devs mailing >> list >>> and instead to use the Discourse open source tool: >>> >>> * Home page: http://www.discourse.org/ >>> * License: GPL v2 >>> * FAQ: http://www.discourse.org/faq/ >>> * Awesome feature list: http://www.discourse.org/about/ >>> >>> What is especially interesting for us: >>> * It works with mailing lists (you can receive mails and send mails to >> the >>> forum). >>> * Works as a forum. BTW if you want to see a real life instance, check >> the >>> gradle instance at https://discuss.gradle.org/ >>> >>> Nice things: >>> * Works on mobile >>> * Comprehensive API (would allow us to integrate it with xwiki.org) >>> * Badges/user metrics >>> >>> So here’s my +1 to try it out and ask XWiki SAS if they could host an >>> instance. >>> >>> WDYT? Do you see any negative point (I don’t ATM)? :) >>> >>> Please cast your votes! >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>> >>
