Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

Thanks for resurrecting this topic David! After our discussions at the June meetup I had intended to create an account with Discourse for the Solr project using their free for open source hosting . Unfortunately, I became ill for an extended period and that endeavor

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

> GitHub is developer-centric and as such would likely, exclude most, non-dev, > users. Last time I checked, (direct) users of Solr were developers. Not necessarily solr or java devs but tech people integrating or operating solr. So I’d not exclude GH discussions. The barrier to joining the so

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

ASF requirements relate to running the development of the project itself -- Solr developers -- committers and contributors. It doesn't extend to user support channels, which is what the "users" list is. This makes sense to me; the ASF can't meaningfully control that because users can go get suppo

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

Perhaps stack overflow is willing to collaborate with infra for an SSO integration and provide an api for the asf to sync an archive copy of everything? Then it’d be an official alternative. I know ml feels quite antiquated for newcomers. Have you considered GitHub’s new “Discussion” tab? It’d

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

At the ASF Community-over-Code conference today, I brought up this topic with ASF Directors and members at a session about project communication. Yes, a project could host something if a project (PMC) wants to, provided that the "dev list" remains where official project decisions are made. Also, th

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

Hi Everyone, I apologize for the delay in responding, I wanted to give some time for others to share their thoughts and due to the mention of a dedicated solr.apache.org URL (I wanted to verify if this was something Discourse offered in their free plan for open source projects, unfortunately it is

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

I agree Ishan, just wanted to mention what I can donate from my company anyway. Happy to allow a customized logo and colors for the Solr section and allow a redirect from solr.apache.org/discussions it that's something useful. Cheers -- *Alessandro Benedetti* Director @ Seas

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

I would prefer if this discussion forum is hosted at an official domain, e.g. solr.apache.org/discussions or something like that. That's the only right way to support an official solution. Can ASF help us here in any way? On Tue, 16 May, 2023, 2:09 pm Alessandro Benedetti, wrote: > We have been

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

We have been working for the last few months on an upcoming Information Retrieval forum: https://ir-relevant.net This will be a fully free forum, sponsored by my company. We have an Apache Solr section: https://ir-relevant.net/forums/forum/search-technologies/apache-solr/, and I would be happy to

Re: Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

This is a great idea! I think this is a much better alternative than current user and dev lists, which are handicapped by an atrocious UX for browsing archives (PonyMail). On Tue, 16 May, 2023, 1:34 am David Mackey, wrote: > Hi All, > > At yesterday's meeting I suggested that discussion forums m

Apache Projects and Discussion Forums

Hi All, At yesterday's meeting I suggested that discussion forums might be useful for managing tension in communications and increasing the visibility / popularity of the Solr project. At the time this didn't seem viable due to the centrality of mailing lists to ASF's communications but Eric sugge