Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

[Clemens Toennies]

Maybe it's an indication that putting monetary resources into these
infrastructure projects (especially in light of KDE's current job hire
initiative) would be a good idea?

To be clear, this is not to say anything about the imo outstanding jobs of
the current voluntaries.
On Feb 23, 2021 23:53, "Ben Cooksley" <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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