[CentOS-devel] Gauging interest in Discourse

Mon Oct 31 19:05:08 UTC 2022
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

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?

josh

> * 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
>
> Thanks,
> Shaun McCance
> CentOS Community Architect
> Red Hat Open Source Program Office
>
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