Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

[Paul Brown]

On miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2021 2:49:28 (CET) Nate Graham wrote:
> On 2/23/21 5:34 PM, Eike Hein wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > This all sounds much too confrontational :-). Come on everyone, we can
> > do this much better.
> > 
> > Ben, I don't think Nate's request implies prioritization. For folks
> > outside a particular team it can be difficult to follow what the team
> > has on their plate at the moment; you probably also wouldn't know the
> > same about Nate's VDG/QA space.
> > 
> > Everyone knows that sysadmin is working hard all the time, but it has to
> > still be possible to do roadmap planning. In fact it's one of the best
> > ways to avoid getting overcommitted in the future. Declaring a goal
> > and/or agreeing to work on it in the abstract doesn't mean it has to be
> > done straight away or rushed, but it e.g. allows attracting contributors
> > to the goal to get the work done, as also seen in the thread already.
> 
> Yes, Ben has made me aware that I don't actually have a good sense of
> what the sysadmin team is working on at any point in time. I'd love to
> be able to see at a glance which tasks are queued up in front of the
> things I'm eager to see done. Even something simple like a wiki page
> would be nice. It could even list ways for interested and technically
> competent people to help. That would be cool.

From Promo's point of view, a Discourse instance would be helpful: As on of 
our goals is to increase the number of community members, directing them to a 
Discourse instance makes the onboarding easier than sending them to a harder 
to navigate forum or a mailing list, a technology many younger users may find 
unfamiliar.

Which brings me to the next point: Over the last few weeks I have had to ask 
for some things from sysadmin and become very aware of how stretched you are. 
But, maybe in the long run, running a Discourse instance may alleviate the 
workload somewhat, as Discourse can substitute both the forum and mailing 
lists.

According to this:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-email-mailing-lists/54298

Discourse can take on a lot of the functionality of mailing lists, apart from 
its own particular features.

And according to this:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008

Users who still prefer mailing lists, can interact with Discourse over email.

So, although the initial migration will be hard (as migrations tend to be), 
maybe sysadmin could end up maintaining one service (Discourse) instead of two 
(forum and mailing list).

Cheers

Paul
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