Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

[Nate Graham]

On 2/23/21 3:53 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> 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?

Hmm, I don't see where I suggested any of those things.

If you folks are really that overloaded, we need to figure out how to 
fix that. A workload that exceeds available resources doesn't help 
anyone. The last time this came up, people called for additional 
volunteers to assist. Did that end up bearing any fruit?

Nate