What would we need from a new forums system if we chose to go that way? Just a few ideas here:
- A really important aspect of the forums is to let people share their artwork, painting tips, and resources (and frustrations, general comments on the world, inspirations...) - A WYSIWYG post editor would be needed, with simple ways of doing multimedia attachments. We're dealing with regular people here, not programmers. - I'd probably replace any bug report subforums with just a link to the issue tracker :) The same might be said for suggestions too, or we could declare the forums as bluesky thinking / possibly-impractical brainstorming territory and the tracker as the place to bring your idea when you have mockups and snippets of code etc. (Shorter: don't make me think it through for you!) - We'd need file upload for resource sharing. Question is, do more modern approaches like curated Tumblrs (e.g. http://made-with-mypaint.tumblr.com/) or uses of Github fit some/any of these requirements? - There is already a PR for splitting out the brush collection to a submodule or a separate project. But it would still be "the brushes that ship with MyPaint", not a distribution system. - Currently the Wiki is open and editable, and is also the place we link brushes from. But they're only links. - We're not going to know about good proposals coming through the system unless people share them as PRs or new issues. But maybe that's OK? On 15 November 2015 at 15:42, Andrew Chadwick <[email protected]> wrote: > TBH, maintaining forums would be just a headache for me. If we want > those, I would have to hand over moderation duties basically > completely because I simply don't have the time for it. > > Sorry for being so lax on monitoring the forums. If they come back in > their existing form, I will have to hand over the reins on them to > someone else. > > The issue tracker is OK for program feature proposals, and great for > program bug reports (of course). It's greate for making Big Important > Decisions too. However I feel it'd be an awful place for artist > community growth. I need more active report triagers already, and > would need active post moderators too if we start using it as "the > forums", whatever that might mean. > > There will even come a time when we have to crack down on feature > proposals on the issue tracker, I worry. I'm becoming burnt out by a > recent flush of (pretty good) suggestions already, so it's clear that > even the current picture doesn't scale. > > > On 15 November 2015 at 04:54, Albert Westra <[email protected]> wrote: >> Jeykll is a good CMS to use and has a good size user base so good support >> and good amount of available themes. Hugo is Faster and simpler to use, and >> uses Markdown like Jeykll. After thinking about I would go for Jeykll since >> speed isn't really necessary and most people would be familiar with Jeykll. >> >> Now what do we do about the forum? We could switch to discorse, but that >> will still require someone to maintain a server. Or do we just expand the >> issue tracker and use the mailing lists more? Discouse dose mainly use tags >> just like how the issue tracker uses lables. Me personally I would just >> expand the issue tracker. >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015, 8:34 PM Andrew Chadwick <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> http://mypaint.org and http://www.mypaint.org should now be up and >>> running with a tiny placeholder site. No redirects to other domains. >>> >>> I've asked our DNS hosting provider, who also host the redirect sites, >>> to point [www].mypaint.info at mypaint.org. IMO this is a good >>> redirect to have, since I've been secretly rewriting links to point at >>> mypaint.org for about a year. >>> >>> It may be that we have to just migrate the old content somewhere else, >>> which could be interesting. >>> If we do that, perhaps it's worth rebuilding the site properly. >>> >>> Any modern CMS or site builder that allows gh-pages hosting would be >>> great for sharing out the site work. I just happen to like Jekyll >>> because it's there in my Debian distribution (so lazy). Markdown >>> appeals to my programmer brain and makes nice diffs. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mypaint-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mypaint-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss >> > > > > -- > Andrew Chadwick -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
