On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:12 PM Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:08 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:05 PM Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.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: > > > > > > Why can't we do all of the below in the Fedora Discourse instance with > > > dedicated categories? > > > > > > > You can only have one level of hierarchy in Discourse. If we were going to do > > significant stuff in Discourse, we're better off on our own instance. > > I don't get it. Please bear with me, because I am definitely not > conversant in Discourse. > > We have centos/ today. There is nothing that says we can't have > centos-SIG/ as a category, right? > We could. It gets super-messy though because the second level is then hashtags/labels, which are global. So you have to tag topics to sort them further, because you can only have one level of categories. At that point, you start getting lots of collisions and confusion between Fedora and CentOS topics. It's very different from virtually all other forum solutions. Arguably, the structure isn't very good, but Discourse is the popular solution this decade, so... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!