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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Discourse
From:       Jonathan Riddell <jr () jriddell ! org>
Date:       2018-10-29 22:28:32
Message-ID: CANX=XXN3aRQaFeD8EpXFU7hPuY_7=GPcavv05KWh+-N-uAUY_A () mail ! gmail ! com
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More information on Fedora use experience, the graphs are impressive
for those who think it's important to keep people in KDE

https://theforeman.org/2018/07/discourse-6-months-on-impact-assesment.html

Jonathan

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 18:32, Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:
>
>
> Discourse is modern forum and mailing list software.  Examples at https:/=
/discussion.fedoraproject.org/ or https://discourse.ubuntu.com/
>
> I went to a talk at the Embedded Linux Summit about how Fedora moved to u=
se Discourse.  Similar to the discussion of moving away from IRC we had las=
t year I see people moving away from mailing lists and new contributors not=
 wanting to get into them.  Our KDE Forums also look quite old school.  In =
Fedora they moved to Discourse and mailing lists and forums and saw a marke=
d increase in engagement.
>
> I think KDE should consider moving away from mailman and onto Discourse a=
nd at the same time forum.kde.org could move to this more modern software. =
It might also help cover Boud's use case of a user support method for peopl=
e with queries before the report a bug.
>
> More coverage on last week's LWN
> https://lwn.net/Articles/768483/
>
> Discussing it in person it was pointed out that we do already use
> Phabricator Workboards for much discussion and it might well overlap
> there, although I don't think that would be any more of an issue than
> mailing lists overlapping.
>
> Jonathan
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