[CentOS-devel] Gauging interest in Discourse

Tue Nov 1 13:41:18 UTC 2022
Shaun McCance <shaunm at redhat.com>

On Mon, 2022-10-31 at 15:05 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:57 PM Shaun McCance <shaunm at redhat.com>
> 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:
> 
> Why can't we do all of the below in the Fedora Discourse instance
> with
> dedicated categories?

Just want to say that this is entirely an option, although I agree with
the points Neal raises about how Discourse organizes stuff. Definitely
the less stuff we commit to doing on Discourse, the more enticing it is
to just use Fedora's. I did recently see somebody asking how to not get
CentOS content in their Fedora Discourse digest. I don't know how
widespread that is.

--
Shaun