On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:01 AM Stephen Smoogen ssmoogen@redhat.com wrote:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 03:19, Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org wrote:

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Let's chat about forums.centos.org !

IMHO, that service can be easily moved to a newer OS/PHP stack and so continue to run. But on the other hand, I heard rumors that some forums moderators would like to stop maintaining/moderating it after 2024.

I also heard that there is now a centos category on fedora discourse (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71)

So while we (centos infra) can easily migrate that server, should we ?

I think the moderators have been pretty clear in different venues that they are done with this when CentOS 7 end of lifes.

That is correct.

Akemi

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:23 AM Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org wrote:

On 28/02/2023 10:30, Akemi Yagi wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:01 AM Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen@redhat.com mailto:ssmoogen@redhat.com> wrote:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 03:19, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org
<mailto:arrfab@centos.org>> wrote:

    Let's chat about forums.centos.org <http://forums.centos.org> !

    IMHO, that service can be easily moved to a newer OS/PHP stack
    and so
    continue to run. But on the other hand, I heard rumors that some
    forums
    moderators would like to stop maintaining/moderating it after

...

    I also heard that there is now a centos category on fedora
    discourse
    (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71
    <https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71>)

    So while we (centos infra) can easily migrate that server,
    should we ?


I think the moderators have been pretty clear in different venues
that they are done with this when CentOS 7 end of lifes.

That is correct.

Akemi

Hey Akemi,

so the question is now : do we just want to keep it running for one year , and so just decommission it in June 2024 ? In the meantime, I guess Shaun can see about centos section on Fedora discourse and start promoting it ? That way people will be aware in advance that the new place to discuss "centos stream" related things will be on discourse and so that we can just shutdown old forums.centos.org service.

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Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

Hi Fabian,

I'd like to keep the forum running until the C7 EOL because it is still getting a fair amount of new posts.

However, it's not me that would make any suggestion on this subject. It should be Trevor. He has been taking care of >90% of the forum posts. :-)

Akemi

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 5:22 PM Colin Walters walters@verbum.org wrote:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023, at 3:19 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:

...

Let's chat about forums.centos.org !

IMHO, that service can be easily moved to a newer OS/PHP stack and so continue to run. But on the other hand, I heard rumors that some forums moderators would like to stop maintaining/moderating it after 2024.

I also heard that there is now a centos category on fedora discourse (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71)

So while we (centos infra) can easily migrate that server, should we ?

I think discourse is great and would be happy to have things there.

The fact that discourse decreed I must want to have one account shared with all the discourses I belong to because I use the same email as login caused me to not be on it as often as they would like. I mean, even slack would allow me to have different accounts in different slacks with the name email but distinct passwords.