Hi Federico,

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 05:40:44AM -0800, Federico Capoano wrote:
>
> I just implemented the following change: most of the important 
repositories of
> the OpenWISP 2 modules and documentation have their master branch 
protected to
> avoid accidental damage.
>
> I added a core development team on github which has write access to most 
of
> these repositories but won't be allowed to push to master without going 
through
> a pull request review.

Does every PR have to be reviewed by you or can members of the core
development team review each other's PRs? Just thinking about the load on
you :-)

> The core development team on github will be "liquid", we can add new 
active
> contributors and remove contributors who are not active anymore often.

Thank you for adding me - I'm feeling honored once more :-)

> [Disadvantages/shortcomings of the mailing list]

I agree with all the things you said.

> That's why I'm starting to consider the option of using discourse, which 
seems
> to be working well in the OpenWRT community (and other communities as 
well).

I have no experience with Discourse but it seems to be the best forum
software out there. I did some investigation for such a software some time
ago and Discourse seemed to be the best choice. Unfortunately it's only
available as a docker image.

> This change would likely require time before we implement it correctly. A
> considerable amount of work would be needed to do it, not just because 
we'd
> have to install and maintain a discourse instance, but also because this 
change
> should be reflected in the website / documentation, users would have to be
> imported (not sure how that plays out with privacy regulations), the 
structure
> / categories and rules of the eventual new discourse instance should be 
created
> before completing such a move.

Would you host the instance somewhere yourself or let somebody else do the
hosting? I'm just thinking about the obligations which come with hosting
such a platform.

An option would be to not migrate the user accounts but to ask users to
register at the new forum if interested - that would also clean up the
userbase.

Greetings,
Oliver

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