Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-05-04 Thread Leslie Hawthorn
Hi David, On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:36 PM, David Reagan jer...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you find IRC unfriendly? Have you tried using a web based client like irccloud.com? I use webchat.freenode.net. There's a big difference between, Here's our live chat app. and Learn how to connect to IRC

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-05-04 Thread David Reagan
Worth thinking through, though I doubt we'll action this any time soon. We're doing our best to maintain good coverage in our IRC channels and folks would still prefer Elastic employees were around more often. Opening up yet another chat mechanism seems like a way to make sure even more

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-05-01 Thread David Reagan
Moving away from mailing lists for anything except announcements would be awesome. Forums are a much better way to have solid discussions with multiple people in. Email is fine, but when you add in more than a couple people, it gets confusing fast. Forums are also far more user friendly for

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-05-01 Thread Leslie Hawthorn
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:26 PM, David Reagan jer...@gmail.com wrote: Moving away from mailing lists for anything except announcements would be awesome. Forums are a much better way to have solid discussions with multiple people in. Email is fine, but when you add in more than a couple people,

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-05-01 Thread David Reagan
Why do you find IRC unfriendly? Have you tried using a web based client like irccloud.com? I use webchat.freenode.net. There's a big difference between, Here's our live chat app. and Learn how to connect to IRC in order to use live chat. I actively avoided live chat for years simply because I

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-23 Thread Alfredo Serafini
Hi I agree with Jorge 100%: adopting a license which gives people the freedom to construct datasets would be great. As I already suggested too to leslie, I think one of the most interesting things coudl be indeed releasing the dataset of the conversations, and costruct over there some example

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-23 Thread Jack Park
I've long wondered how it is that the ElasticSearch tribe could not build something within its own community, a platform that uses ElasticSearch to provide the UX being discussed here (a term occasionally used for that is eat your own dog food). Just thinkin... On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:18 AM,

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-22 Thread Zhongxing Xu
This is really important for us in China!! Please switch to whatever service that is accessible in China. Thank you. 在 2015年4月2日星期四 UTC+8下午11:36:33,leslie.hawthorn写道: Hello everyone, As we’ve begun to scale up development on three different open source projects, we’ve found Google Groups to

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-20 Thread Ivan Brusic
I believe the best developers are cynics. Never trust someone else's code, that API, the OS, etc :) What bothers me about Discourse is that email is an afterthought. They have not built out that feature yet? For me, and apparently many others, email is the first concern. The transition is

Re: [logstash-users] Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-17 Thread James Green
What's the missing is a culture in which consumers put questions directly into documentation for answering by the next person who reads it and knows the answer. Note that it's not good enough to implement an append-only authorship for QAs, the question and the answer need to feed back into a

Re: [logstash-users] Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-17 Thread Mingfai
hi, Just want to give an example of open source project that use Discourse: https://discuss.aerospike.com/ NodeBB is probably the closely alternative to Discourse as a modern forum software regards, mingfai On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:16 PM, James Green james.mk.gr...@gmail.com wrote: What's

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread Itamar Syn-Hershko
I believe the biggest impact would be on responsiveness As another long-timer, and someone who often responds to questions, I will probably cease to do that if the forum would move to Discourse simply because it lacks the push style notifications on new questions. Right now if a question title in

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread joergpra...@gmail.com
I know I can not influence the decision for Discourse, so here are just my 2 ¢. The move should also consider that users who register with the new forum should have the right to export their own contributions to download them similar to Google takeaway function for Gmail / G+ account. Also, it

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread Glen Smith
* it lacks the push style notifications on new questions* https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-enGiohVrmdk/VS6lNPnQMbI/A70/fc-SzjQxRlk/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-04-15%2Bat%2B1.49.18%2BPM.png That doesn't seem to be correct to me. Does send me an email for every new post not cover what you

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread Leslie Hawthorn
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Ivan Brusic i...@brusic.com wrote: I should clarify that I have no issues moving to Discourse, as long as instantaneous email interaction is preserved, just wanted to point out that I see no issues with the mailing lists. Understood. The question is moot

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread Itamar Syn-Hershko
Fair play, will check that out, assuming you can reply to that email to respond? -- Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko https://twitter.com/synhershko Freelance Developer Consultant Lucene.NET committer and PMC member On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Glen Smith

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread Glen Smith
Tyler- Thanks. I hope it's 100% clear to everyone with that concern now. Regards, Glen On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 3:06:23 PM UTC-4, ty...@elastic.co wrote: Glen, We'll be setting up a dedicated instance of Discourse with the functionality in question, which is still forthcoming. Once

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread tyler
Glen, We'll be setting up a dedicated instance of Discourse with the functionality in question, which is still forthcoming. Once we have that, we'll be able to provide the information necessary to subscribe to what you're interested in and reply via email. We've been beating on Discourse for

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-15 Thread Ivan Brusic
I should clarify that I have no issues moving to Discourse, as long as instantaneous email interaction is preserved, just wanted to point out that I see no issues with the mailing lists. The question is moot anyways since the change will happen regardless of our inputs. I hope we can subscribe

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-13 Thread Leslie Hawthorn
Thanks for your feedback, Ivan. There's no plan to remove threads from the forums, so information would always be archived there as well. Does that impact your thoughts on moving to Discourse? Folks, please keep the feedback coming! Cheers, LH On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Ivan Brusic

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-10 Thread Ivan Brusic
As one of the oldest and most frequent users (before my sabbatical) of the mailing list, I just wanted to say that I never had an issue with it. It works. As long as I could continue using only email, I am happy. For realtime communication, there is the IRC channel. If prefer the mailing list

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-09 Thread Leslie Hawthorn
Thank you for your feedback, Glen! We're currently planning to use the hosted platform. Folks, please keep the feedback coming. We value your opinion. Cheers, LH On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Glen Smith g...@smithsrock.com wrote: +1 for recognizing the challenge, proactively approaching it,

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-09 Thread Jack Park
+1 to Glen's reply. I would build on Glen's comment nobody is ever forever going to invest anything in improving the user interface with this question (to the entire group): What should a user interface for group collaboration be capable of facilitating? Cheers Jack On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:23

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-09 Thread Glen Smith
+1 for recognizing the challenge, proactively approaching it, clearly articulating the issues, and proposing a seemingly beneficial solution. Migrating off of gg would, IMO, be a good thing, for the reasons you stated, plus numerous consequences of the unsupported state. e.g. nobody is ever

Re: Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-03 Thread Leslie Hawthorn
Thank you for sharing your feedback and experience with Discourse, Jack. From what I have seen, I agree that Discourse will allow our conversations to be a bit more structured and we're putting a lot of thought into how to structure the forum so that topic areas will be intuitive for our users to

Evaluating Moving to Discourse - Feedback Wanted

2015-04-02 Thread leslie.hawthorn
Hello everyone, As we’ve begun to scale up development on three different open source projects, we’ve found Google Groups to be a difficult solution for dealing with all of our needs for community support. We’ve got multiple mailing lists going, which can be confusing for new folks trying to