[CentOS-devel] Gauging interest in Discourse

Mon Oct 31 19:28:46 UTC 2022
Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com>

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.

Trevor