Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:26 AM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd),
>

Hi Nate,


>
> 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.
>

May I take this as a formal request from yourself that Gitlab CI is
deprioritised and delayed?

Based on the extremely frequent requests we get concerning it in
#kde-sysadmin I am not sure if your request here is in line with general
community consensus.

Also, be aware that Sysadmin currently has other infrastructure level
projects underway needed to get us off Ubuntu 16.04, which are currently
delayed because we haven't had anyone volunteer to assist us with adding
support for OAuth2/MyKDE to Reimbursements.
Based on the above, I assume you are also requesting that we delay this,
and accept the corresponding security issues that will accompany it when
Ubuntu 16.04 loses support in the coming months in order to get this
actioned?


>
> Nate
>

Regards,
Ben
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