Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ I went to a talk at the Embedded Linux Summit about how Fedora moved to use Discourse. Similar to the discussion of moving away from IRC we had last year

discourse testing

2022-12-30 Thread Harald Sitter
Hello my dearies, at last; the day has come! We are testing discourse as new forum software. I'd like to invite you to give it a bit of testing so we can figure out problems or annoyances we have with it. This is currently limited to people with an invent account while we do internal te

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Jacky Alcine
This would be really cool. I do use the forums a lot but navigating them (if youre not familiar with phpbb) can be tricky. Discourse is a bit more intuitive. On Monday, October 29, 2018 11:31:54 AM PDT Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:31:54 + Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > contributors not wanting to get into them. Our KDE Forums also look > quite old school. In Fedora they moved to Discourse and mailing > lists and forums and saw a marked increase in engagement. "Old schoo

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread David Wright
nathan Riddell ha > scritto: > > contributors not wanting to get into them. Our KDE Forums also look > > quite old school. In Fedora they moved to Discourse and mailing > > lists and forums and saw a marked increase in engagement. > > "Old school" because few

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Shrug, personal taste. > - The "app" on mobile is a joke, basically a web view of the mobile page I'm told the app works fine web view or no, doesn't seem a reason to dislike an app. > > I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto > > Does Discou

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Jonathan Riddell
More information on Fedora use experience, the graphs are impressive for those who think it's important to keep people in KDE https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html Jonathan On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 18:32, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > Disco

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Sivan Greenberg
fine web view or no, doesn't seem a reason to > dislike an app. +1 also common with content viewing mobile apps. > > > > I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto > > > > Does Discourse have a mail interface to avoid breaking user workflows? > &

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Rubén Gómez Antolí
Hi all, El 29/10/18 a las 23:27, Jonathan Riddell escribió: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 20:56, Luca Beltrame wrote: [...] >> Does Discourse have a mail interface to avoid breaking user workflows? >> How should a migration be handled? Don't forget we'll lose distributed &g

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Andrew Crouthamel
Thank you for that link, that was an interesting read. I am heartily in favor of migrating discussion to Discourse. The features page has a good breakdown of why one would use it over phpBB, so there is no need to reiterate that here. But I would like to offer my observations as a relatively

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:27:37 + Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > Seems like a perfectly sensible and modern way to deploy. You can log > into the running container fine and twiddle as needed. Only if you know what's inside. I would not trust a "docker pull" without knowing how the image

Re: Discourse

2018-10-29 Thread Ben Cooksley
> > I'm told the app works fine web view or no, doesn't seem a reason to > dislike an app. > > > > I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto > > > > Does Discourse have a mail interface to avoid breaking user workflows? > > How sh

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Brown
Hello, Although my experience maintaining a full-fledged Discourse deployment is nil (so I can't speak to that side of the discussion with any authority), I did install and research Discourse for an experiment with Hispalinux a couple of years ago. From a users' point of view, the

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On maandag 29 oktober 2018 19:31:54 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ > > I went to a talk at the Embedded Linux Summit about how Fedora moved to use

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:38 PM Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On maandag 29 oktober 2018 19:31:54 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ > >

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread totte
On 2018-10-30 08:38, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: On maandag 29 oktober 2018 19:31:54 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ I went to a talk at the Embedded Linux Summit

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:28 AM Ben Cooksley wrote: > thanks to Docker's lack of user namespaces Docker has user namespacing. At blue systems we've been using it since September 2016 https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/userns-remap/ HS

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Harald Sitter
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:32 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ > > I went to a talk at the Embedded Linux Summit about how Fedora moved t

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Adams
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 07:28, Ben Cooksley wrote: > Sorry, Docker might be a wonderful way to test applications, but it's > totally unsuitable for production workloads. That's a bold claim. At Zalando we have 10,000s of microservices in production and each one of them is running inside a Docker c

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:38:28 +0100 Boudewijn Rempt ha scritto: > As for the forum, it would be good to replace that with something > more modern. We get a lot of traffic on the forums, People don't I don't want to sound overly negative, but that's a common feeling also for those who handl

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Christian Loosli
Hi all, from what I get from the documentation, discourse has a mailing list mode which can, from a end user point of view, be used the same as a mailing list. As in: in a mail client, without additional config that would not be needed with a ML as well. So assuming we have 1) Sysadmins

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:38 AM Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On maandag 29 oktober 2018 19:31:54 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software. Examples at > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/ > >

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:59 PM Paul Adams wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 07:28, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > Sorry, Docker might be a wonderful way to test applications, but it's > > totally unsuitable for production workloads. > > That's a bold claim. At Zalando we have 10,000s of microservices

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Adams
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 11:42, Ben Cooksley wrote: > If you're running 10,000+ microservice instances, then you can have > the teams of people needed to maintain the necessary overhead This is true. Also not your original point: you claimed that Docker containers were generally unsuitable for prod

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Lays Rodrigues
I do think that we should consider to move to discourse. One thing that I've learned with the agile method is to discover the 'pain' of my user and try to cure it. What i see from this thread is the 'pain' of maintaining this kind of infrastructure, that I think that u

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Michael Reeves
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 6:50 AM Paul Adams wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 11:42, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > If you're running 10,000+ microservice instances, then you can have > > the teams of people needed to maintain the necessary overhead > > This is true. Also not your original point: you claime

Re: Discourse

2018-10-30 Thread Eike Hein
g lists, whereas we've migrated nearly all of the ones we don't have in chats anyway to Phabricator. That means the need for Discourse isn't quite the same, and it also does mean to me that Phabricator and Discourse might end up stepping on each others' toes and cause more frageme

Re: Discourse

2018-11-25 Thread Lays Rodrigues
So, is it possible to add Discourse for KDE? Because this discussion is dead for almost a month now =/ On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 1:24 PM Lays Rodrigues wrote: > So, is it possible to add Discourse for KDE? > > Because this discussion is dead for almost a month now =/ > > On Tue,

Re: Discourse

2018-11-25 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:58:48 -0200 Lays Rodrigues ha scritto: > So, is it possible to add Discourse for KDE? Given the burden on Sysadmin already, there needs to be someone willing to shoulder this work (and go past their objections, like the use of Postgres), at least for evaluat

Re: Discourse

2018-11-26 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
Luca Beltrame kirjoitti 26.11.2018 klo 8.15: Il giorno Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:58:48 -0200 Lays Rodrigues ha scritto: So, is it possible to add Discourse for KDE? Given the burden on Sysadmin already, there needs to be someone willing to shoulder this work (and go past their objections, like

Re: Discourse

2018-11-26 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On maandag 26 november 2018 09:23:42 CET Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: > The main problem in any case will be getting enough engagement. I don't > think I have ever received a reply from a KDE developer in the current > forums. I've made over 4100 forum posts, and I'm certainly a KDE developer. --

Re: Discourse

2018-11-26 Thread Martin Flöser
Am 2018-11-26 09:23, schrieb Ilmari Lauhakangas: The main problem in any case will be getting enough engagement. I don't think I have ever received a reply from a KDE developer in the current forums. And that's good! Do you want that developers spend time answering simple support questions any

Re: Discourse

2018-11-26 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
Martin Flöser kirjoitti 26.11.2018 klo 19.03: Am 2018-11-26 09:23, schrieb Ilmari Lauhakangas: The main problem in any case will be getting enough engagement. I don't think I have ever received a reply from a KDE developer in the current forums. And that's good! Do you want that developers spe

Re: Discourse

2018-11-26 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Montag, 26. November 2018 18:03:55 CET Martin Flöser wrote: > Am 2018-11-26 09:23, schrieb Ilmari Lauhakangas: > > The main problem in any case will be getting enough engagement. I > > don't think I have ever received a reply from a KDE developer in the > > current forums. > > And that's good!

Re: Discourse

2018-11-27 Thread Lays Rodrigues
the future. Discourse is a way to do that. I don't have much idea on how is the cost to maintain such an application, but in the field to setup it, I don't think that is hard since we just need docker and Postgres. So Ben and other sysadmins, Ben, you had some concerns that others answered on this

Re: Discourse

2018-11-27 Thread Martin Flöser
Am 2018-11-26 22:04, schrieb Ingo Klöcker: On Montag, 26. November 2018 18:03:55 CET Martin Flöser wrote: Am 2018-11-26 09:23, schrieb Ilmari Lauhakangas: > The main problem in any case will be getting enough engagement. I > don't think I have ever received a reply from a KDE developer in the >

Re: Discourse

2018-11-27 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
ebsites go modern, but that is a project for the future. Discourse is a way to do that. I don't have much idea on how is the cost to maintain such an application, but in the field to setup it, I don't think that is hard since we just need docker and Postgres. So Ben and other sysadmin

Re: Discourse

2018-11-27 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On dinsdag 27 november 2018 17:30:13 CET Martin Flöser wrote: > I don't want to tell developers to not do user support. If they want to > do that, it's fine. But currently our infrastructure forces it on us. > And that's a problem and won't scale in the long run. Let's see how the ask.krita.org e

Re: Discourse

2018-11-27 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:25:06 -0200 Lays Rodrigues ha scritto: > As a ~new person~ on KDE, 3 years only, we need to move to a modern > web. At least in my point of view, I really think that using old Then someone needs to do it: as you are well aware, that's how most of the stuff in KDE is

Re: Discourse

2018-11-27 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:23:42 +0200 Ilmari Lauhakangas ha scritto: > step to recruit someone to upgrade the existing forum to the latest > version of phpBB (which has evolved during all this time after all)? The main pain problem because it's not a "one click" update is mainly because the

Re: Discourse

2018-11-28 Thread Jacky Alcine
On Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:32:40 PST Luca Beltrame wrote: > Il giorno Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:25:06 -0200 > > Lays Rodrigues ha scritto: > > As a ~new person~ on KDE, 3 years only, we need to move to a modern > > web. At least in my point of view, I really think that using old > > Then someone

Re: Discourse

2018-11-29 Thread Ben Cooksley
have a few ideas for some KDE websites go > modern, but that is a project for the future. > Discourse is a way to do that. I don't have much idea on how is the cost to > maintain such an application, but in the field to setup it, I don't > think that is hard since we just

Re: Discourse

2018-11-29 Thread Harald Sitter
I really think that using old stuff doesn't > > attract new people. In that I have a few ideas for some KDE websites go > > modern, but that is a project for the future. > > Discourse is a way to do that. I don't have much idea on how is the cost to > > maintain such

Re: Discourse

2018-11-29 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
I do know that when blenderartists migrated to discourse, they needed a kickstarter to fund that: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1072051946/ blenderartists-20-were-moving-to-discourse . That's a much bigger community, of course. -- https://www.krita.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Discourse

2018-11-29 Thread Harald Sitter
we have to migrate our current database, which is why I asked so many question :). Just migrating threads and attachments is something discourse can do just fine apparently, so if we need nothing else it's probably fairly cheap to pull the data along, if not we'll need to be flexible. HS

Re: Discourse

2018-11-29 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:32:12 +0100 Harald Sitter ha scritto: > with the current forums? Do we have the original evaluation of how we > ended up with phpbb somewhere? Originally it was MyBB[1] (just open sourced), then we started hitting some limitations there, and it was decided to move t

Re: Discourse

2018-11-30 Thread Ben Cooksley
n~ on KDE, 3 years only, we need to move to a modern web. > > > At least in my point of view, I really think that using old stuff doesn't > > > attract new people. In that I have a few ideas for some KDE websites go > > > modern, but that is a project for the future.

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Harald Sitter
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:41 PM Luca Beltrame wrote: > > Can you describe these workflows a bit? > > There is this https://www.discourse.org/plugins/akismet.html not sure > > Is it Akismet in name, or uses the service? I am not sure what that means I am afraid. > > it's sufficient though. One c

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:58:27 +0100 Harald Sitter ha scritto: > > Is it Akismet in name, or uses the service? > I am not sure what that means I am afraid. Akismet is a (non-Free) antispam service used originally by Wordpress.com, optionally self-hosted WP, but now used also by other soft

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Harald Sitter
be all wrong). Aha! "Akismet is a well known service that has an algorithm for detecting spam. Akismet is NOT free for commerical use, but can be for personal use. To use this plugin you will need an Akismet API key. You can get a key by starting out here." https://github.com/discours

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Harald Sitter
I've started a wiki page. I encourage people to chip in. https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Evaluation/Discourse HS

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Tue, 4 Dec 2018 12:48:48 +0100 Harald Sitter ha scritto: > OTOH I also don't understand how the current spam protection works. Do > we maintain a list of blacklisted words? Because from what I > understand discourse has that built in. Along with blocking by IP.

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:31 PM Luca Beltrame wrote: > > Il giorno Tue, 4 Dec 2018 12:48:48 +0100 > Harald Sitter ha scritto: > > > OTOH I also don't understand how the current spam protection works. Do > > we maintain a list of blacklisted words? Because from what I

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I asked Greg from Fedora who has led their change away from mailing lists onto Discourse. gwmngilfen: over in KDE land the discussion about Discourse continues with queries about whether running in a Docker is a good idea (seems ideal to me but sysadmins disagree) and if there's any sec

Re: Discourse

2018-12-04 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I asked Alan the Ubuntu community manager if he had insights into their setup and security concerns, he said: In short, do what upstream supports. I setup a discourse recently which I did using digitialocean and the upstream install process, which indeed is inside docker ( I haven't

Re: discourse testing

2022-12-30 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
<3 On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM Harald Sitter wrote: > Hello my dearies, > > at last; the day has come! We are testing discourse as new forum > software. I'd like to invite you to give it a bit of testing so we can > figure out problems or annoyances we have wit

Re: discourse testing

2022-12-30 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 30 December 2022 12:12:42 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > Hello my dearies, > > at last; the day has come! We are testing discourse as new forum > software. Best. Xmas present. ever. -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde

Re: discourse testing

2022-12-31 Thread Grzegorz Szymaszek
Hi, When trying to register, I’ve got the Email, Username and Name filled out from (most likely) Invent. The fourth field, Invent Profile, is empty. Could you explain what is the purpose of that field, what one is expected to type there? Thanks in advance! All the best -- Grzegorz signature.

Re: discourse testing

2023-01-01 Thread Harald Sitter
I'm actually not sure what that is about. Maybe Carl knows? On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 2:40 PM Grzegorz Szymaszek wrote: > > Hi, > > When trying to register, I’ve got the Email, Username and Name filled > out from (most likely) Invent. The fourth field, Invent Profile, is > empty. Could you explain

Re: discourse testing

2023-01-01 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 1 January 2023 11:52:54 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > I'm actually not sure what that is about. Maybe Carl knows? > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 2:40 PM Grzegorz Szymaszek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When trying to register, I’ve got the Email, Username and Name filled > > out from (most likely

Re: discourse testing

2023-02-06 Thread Harald Sitter
Good morning! Since my last email we've made various improvements as suggestions came in. If we forgot to action something please give @sitter or @carl a ping. We've now also enabled site-local registration as well as login using google, facebook, and github. Please give this a good testing if yo

Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-06-19 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I've set up a Discourse server for a trail to see if it's something we should add to KDE's infrastructure. Discourse is a modern Free Software web forum and mailing list app. Give it a trial now at http://discuss.kde.org.uk/ If you want to be an admin do ask me. If you want

Say hello to Discourse! | KDE's new forum

2023-04-04 Thread Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Hello KDE community! As many of you know, KDE is now using Discourse as its forum. If you haven't already, sign up and try it out here: https://discuss.kde.org/ The forum provides new opportunities for community building and sharing information between contributors and across pro

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-06-19 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:44:19 +0100 Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > Eventually I would like to see this replace forum.kde.org and allow > projects to move their mailing lists over to it as they wish. You may want to test somewhere if you can import existing threads from f.k.o. Last time thi

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-06-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 6/19/19 5:44 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I've set up a Discourse server for a trail to see if it's something we > should add to KDE's infrastructure. > > Discourse is a modern Free Software web forum and mailing list app. > > Give it a trial now at http:

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-06-30 Thread Nate Graham
On 6/29/19 4:04 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Jonathan, Thank you for setting this up! I've recently had the opportunity to experience Discourse in action in another community, and found it to fulfill most of the things we found lacking in both of our current forum and mailing list sof

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-06-30 Thread Luigi Toscano
Nate Graham ha scritto: > On 6/29/19 4:04 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> Hi Jonathan, >> Thank you for setting this up! >> I've recently had the opportunity to experience Discourse in action in >> another community, and found it to fulfill most of the things we

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-07-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi all, On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:48 AM Luigi Toscano wrote: > Nate Graham ha scritto: > > On 6/29/19 4:04 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan, > >> Thank you for setting this up! > >> I've recently had the opportunity to experience Discourse

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-07-02 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> >> Thank you for setting this up! > >> I've recently had the opportunity to experience Discourse in > action in > >> another community, and found it to fulfill most of the things we > found > >> lacking in both of our current forum

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-10-23 Thread Jonathan Riddell
How can we progress with this? It was discussed at Akademy and everyone seemed in favour https://phabricator.kde.org/T11675 The issues we had with it seem to have useful responses from Discourse developers https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-for-kde/128193 I'm very happy to help

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-10-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:58 AM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > How can we progress with this? > > It was discussed at Akademy and everyone seemed in favour > https://phabricator.kde.org/T11675 > > The issues we had with it seem to have useful responses from Discourse

Re: Say hello to Discourse! | KDE's new forum

2023-04-04 Thread Raghavendra Kamath
wrote: > Hello KDE community! > > As many of you know, KDE is now using Discourse as its forum. If you > haven't already, sign up and try it out here: > >https://discuss.kde.org/ > > The forum provides new opportunities for community building and sharing > info

Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Nate Graham
Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd), I would like to formally request that a KDE discourse instance be set up as a testbed for now, with the ultimate goal of replacing the somewhat moribund forums.kde.org if people prefer it. Over the years I've seen this sugg

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mardi, février 23, 2021 11:25 PM, Nate Graham a écrit : > Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd), > > I would like to formally request that a KDE discourse instance be set up > as a testbed for now, with the ultimate goal of replacing the somewhat > moribund

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:26 AM Nate Graham wrote: > Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd), > Hi Nate, > > I would like to formally request that a KDE discourse instance be set up > as a testbed for now, with the ultimate goal of replacing the some

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Nate Graham
On 2/23/21 3:53 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: May I take this as a formal request from yourself that Gitlab CI is deprioritised and delayed? Based on the extremely frequent requests we get concerning it in #kde-sysadmin I am not sure if your request here is in line with general community consensus.

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Nate Graham
On 2/23/21 4:07 PM, Nate Graham wrote: On 2/23/21 3:53 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: May I take this as a formal request from yourself that Gitlab CI is deprioritised and delayed? Based on the extremely frequent requests we get concerning it in #kde-sysadmin I am not sure if your request here is in

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Eike Hein
ing to work on it in the abstract doesn't mean it has to be done straight away or rushed, but it e.g. allows attracting contributors to the goal to get the work done, as also seen in the thread already. The idea of adopting Discourse as a replacement for the old forums has been around for

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-23 Thread Nate Graham
On 2/23/21 5:34 PM, Eike Hein wrote: Hey, This all sounds much too confrontational :-). Come on everyone, we can do this much better. Ben, I don't think Nate's request implies prioritization. For folks outside a particular team it can be difficult to follow what the team has on their plate

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-24 Thread Paul Brown
n at any point in time. I'd love to > be able to see at a glance which tasks are queued up in front of the > things I'm eager to see done. Even something simple like a wiki page > would be nice. It could even list ways for interested and technically > competent people to help.

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-28 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:49 PM Nate Graham wrote: > On 2/23/21 5:34 PM, Eike Hein wrote: > > Hey, > > > > This all sounds much too confrontational :-). Come on everyone, we can > > do this much better. > > > > Ben, I don't think Nate's request implies prioritization. For folks > > outside a part

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-28 Thread Philippe Cloutier
ou all inspired me - albeit likely involuntarily - to blog a geekultural essay which I hope will make this "diskourse" (pun intended) even more konstruktive. I'm attaching here its essence, an algorithm in the form of pseudo-Java. Coming back to Nate's request, I&#

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-02 Thread Nate Graham
On 2/28/21 3:17 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: I've now filled in most of the items i'm aware of at https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/task-queue/-/issues <https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/task-queue/-/issues> Ah nice. Can we get Discourse added to that task list? As Eike said earlier

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-06 Thread Clemens Toennies
2021 23:53, "Ben Cooksley" wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:26 AM Nate Graham wrote: > >> Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd), >> > > Hi Nate, > > >> >> I would like to formally request that a KDE discourse instanc

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-06 Thread Nate Graham
g jobs of the current voluntaries. I've suggested it the past, and I believe this thread suggests that the amount of work exceeds the available resources by a significant margin, which reinforcing the proposal. Ben, can we get Discourse added to the Sysadmin task queue? Again, no pre

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-06 Thread Ben Cooksley
t margin, > which reinforcing the proposal. > > Ben, can we get Discourse added to the Sysadmin task queue? Again, no > pressure regarding schedule, but can we get it added there just for > work-tracking purposes? > I've now added https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ta

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-07 Thread Nate Graham
On 3/6/21 10:35 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 3:51 AM Nate Graham <mailto:n...@kde.org>> wrote:> Ben, can we get Discourse added to the Sysadmin task queue? Again, no pressure regarding schedule, but can we get it added there just for work-tracking purp

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-08 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:55 AM Nate Graham wrote: > On 3/6/21 10:35 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 3:51 AM Nate Graham > <mailto:n...@kde.org>> wrote:> > > Ben, can we get Discourse added to the Sysadmin task queue? Again, no > >

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-12 Thread Nate Graham
On 3/8/21 1:55 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:55 AM Nate Graham I think doing GitLab stuff first makes sense in terms of usage of your time. On that subject, I notice that both Jonathan and Carl (CC'd) have offered to handle setting up the test Discourse ins

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-12 Thread Ben Cooksley
nathan and Carl (CC'd) > have > > offered to handle setting up the test Discourse instance, or assist > > with > > it. Perhaps we can do them in parallel, and accomplish a bit of > > Sysadmin > > onboarding too. :) What do you think? > >

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-12 Thread Carl Schwan
e in terms of usage of your > > >     time. On that subject, I notice that both Jonathan and Carl (CC'd) > > >have > > >     offered to handle setting up the test Discourse instance, or assist > > >     with > > >     it. Perhaps we can do them in parallel,

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-12 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Freitag, 12. März 2021 21:44:09 CET Carl Schwan wrote: > Le vendredi, mars 12, 2021 7:49 PM, Ben Cooksley a > écrit : > > It also isn't as simple as just adding more server resources, as in some > > cases the place something will be moving from is a donated machine, and > > we prefer to ensure

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-03-12 Thread Ben Cooksley
ta-artists.org in term of storage shouldn't cost the e.V. more than > €15 > > a month. I think the e.V. can afford that to provide a lively place for > the > > community to ask questions and discuss things related to KDE. > The problem isn't that we don't have