From kde-community Tue Feb 23 22:31:47 2021 From: Carl Schwan Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:31:47 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=161411953513221 Le mardi, f=C3=A9vrier 23, 2021 11:25 PM, Nate Graham a = =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: > Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd), > > 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. I second that and would be happy to take care to set it up. Cheers, Carl > Nate