On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:06 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> 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: > > > > * 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 > > > > From my point of view, I'd look at a CentOS Discourse as a replacement > for the older CentOS Forums. I would rather not replace the developer > discussions with Discourse, but user support and engagement places, > sure. > > Activity reports and such should be going out to the blog because > that's how the media is going to pick it up. Notably, the CentOS > Hyperscale SIG is continuously in the news because we did the > extremely simple thing of always having our reports on the blog. SIGs > that don't do that don't get talked about. They don't get mindshare, > and they don't get growth and further interest. I do like the blog posts. Those from Hyperscaler are quite nice. > I prefer the mailing list for developer discussions because it allows > me to tag people into discussions easily enough. However, CentOS > Stream development is currently not in a very good place because > almost nobody from RHEL engineering is here. Same goes for the IRC > channels and any other medium. CentOS Stream development remains > horrifically opaque, and that is a bug. Unless things change at some > point, most mailing lists could be closed with not that much impact, > since there's no communication anyway. What kind of communication/interaction are you expecting? josh > (As an aside, the amount of backchannel effort I have to do to even > get stuff to be *looked at* is pretty awful. If we want this to be a > successful project, the mindset of how people are supposed to work > with RHEL developers needs to change.) > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel