[CentOS-devel] RFC (Request for Comments) : future of forums.centos.org

Mon Feb 27 20:10:58 UTC 2023
Justin W. Flory (he/him) <jwf at redhat.com>

Hi folks,

Weighing in from the Fedora side of things, I am happy to have a
conversation about how we could make Fedora Discussion / Discourse a
friendlier place for the CentOS community. We are putting a lot of
resources into our Discourse infrastructure, and we also have a support
contract with upstream to influence features that are desired by a distro
developer audience. Plus, I think it makes a lot of practical sense for our
communities to be closer together with our communications infrastructure. 😃

Is there anything we can do to help make Fedora Discussion a friendlier
place for CentOS?

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:05 PM Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 03:19, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> Let's chat about forums.centos.org !
>>
>> IMHO, that service can be easily moved to a newer OS/PHP stack and so
>> continue to run. But on the other hand, I heard rumors that some forums
>> moderators would like to stop maintaining/moderating it after 2024.
>>
>> I also heard that there is now a centos category on fedora discourse
>> (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/centos/71)
>>
>> So while we (centos infra) can easily migrate that server, should we ?
>>
>>
> I think the moderators have been pretty clear in different venues that
> they are done with this when CentOS 7 end of lifes. Moving the forum to
> read-only and scraping/archiving the public discussions at that point is
> probably best. At that point put a placeholder to the scraped site and a
> link to future discussions to the  discussion.fedoraproject.org system. I
> think the types of discussions for CentOS Stream 9++ will mesh better with
> Fedora as they are both more 'update weekly to see what is coming' focused
> than the 'long term sit and update when I have to' production that older
> CentOS releases were known for.
>
>
>
>> Let's spend some time investigating the options and take a decision
>> about it !
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Fabian Arrotin
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