Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

[Carl Schwan]

Le mardi, février 23, 2021 11:25 PM, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> a écrit :

> Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd),
>
> I would like to formally request that a KDE discourse instance be set up
> as a testbed for now, with the ultimate goal of replacing the somewhat
> moribund forums.kde.org if people prefer it.
>
> Over the years I've seen this suggested multiple times by multiple
> people, but without much movement. Since then, the Krita people have set
> up a Discourse instance themselves, outside of KDE infrastructure. Many
> other FOSS communities already use Discourse, including Debian, Ubuntu,
> Fedora, Manjaro, GNOME, and Mozilla.
>
> I think it's time for us to follow suit and set up an official discourse
> instance on KDE Infrastructure.
>
> Last I heard, there was an objection based on the fact that its
> deployment mechanism requires Docker. I don't care much for Docker
> myself, but if it's the only way to set up Discourse, I think it's time
> to bite the bullet and use it despite reservations, so we can facilitate
> this longstanding request from the KDE community.

I second that and would be happy to take care to set it up.

Cheers,
Carl

> Nate