On Mon, 2022-10-31 at 19:28 +0000, Trevor Hemsley wrote: > On 31/10/2022 18:57, Shaun McCance wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > You might be aware that there is a CentOS category on the Fedora > > Discourse instance: > > > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71 > > > > There have been some discussions about having a dedicated Discourse > > instance for CentOS. Discourse has a lot of advantages, such as > > better > > moderation and integration with our accounts system. But I > > understand > > that many people are comfortable with their existing workflows. > > > > There's no point in running Discourse if it doesn't get enough buy- > > in. > > So I'm asking for input on using Discourse for various things: > > > > * Project announcements, like events, meetings, and infra changes > > > > * Activity reports, such as for SIGs and events > > > > * User support, replacing forums.centos.org > > > > * Development of Stream itself, basically centos-devel > > > > * Development of stuff inside SIGs > > > > * Replacement for the comments section of the blog > > > > * Alternatively, just replacing the blog entirely > > > > * Something else I'm not thinking of > > > > > Silly me, I thought we'd already had this discussion, at least twice. > > The current CentOS forum moderators have no wish to continue once the > CentOS 7 EOL date in 2024 comes and goes. There was discussion in > various tickets about replacing it with a CentOS Discourse and one > was > set up and is running. There is a forum notice on the current CentOS > forums that points Stream users at that discourse instance as the > Stream > people said that they would take more part in answering questions > there. > > As far as I am concerned, that's it. It's done. The link on the forums is to the CentOS section on the Fedora Discourse. This thread is explicitly about whether CentOS should have its own Discourse instance. If those conversations have been had, I wasn't part of them, and the people I've talked to so far haven't had much to say about those past conversations. This seems like an overly hostile response to a simple request for community input. -- Shaun