Re: Discourse for GNOME docs

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:38:14 -0400
Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-03-10 at 19:44 +0100, Petr Kovar wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:25:38 -0500
> > Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We have a Discourse server for GNOME now:
> > >
> > > https://discourse.gnome.org/
> > >
> > > There's been some conversation about moving development
> > > conversations
> > > there. I honestly don't know how that will pan out, but it's
> > > something
> > > we ought to think about for docs conversations.
> > >
> > > One of the advantages over mailing lists is that we can have tags
> > > that
> > > people apply to threads, and you can watch those tags. So if you're
> > > interested in docs (and if we had a docs tag), you could follow
> > > that
> > > tag, and you'd see docs threads even in categories you don't
> > > otherwise
> > > follow.
> >
> > How do we request a docs tag? Asking in one of the Discourse threads,
> > maybe?
> > This could be an interesting alternative to getting mode feedback on
> > GNOME
> > docs, since the docs feedback ML linked from help.g.o doesn't quite
> > work,
>
> It appears a tag has appeared:
>
> https://discourse.gnome.org/tags/documentation
>
> > though I also think deprecating MLs in favor of Discourse for project
> > discussion would be a bit preliminary. 
>
> I think I agree for now. I can't really predict how Discourse is going
> to shake out for GNOME in the long run. Right now, we should try to be
> engaged in it, watch the documentation tag, add the documentation tag
> if we run across untagged docs discussions, etc. But dropping the
> mailing list right now is premature.

Right, premature it is. On the topic of migrations, I'd prefer to either
stay with mailing lists, or migrate all of them instead of potentially
fragmenting project forums. For docs, I think it is especially useful to
use the same forum as the Translation Project, so I wouldn't migrate
without them migrating too.

Cheers,
pk