[libreoffice-design] Re: Questions on UX/Design category on Discourse

Hi Heiko,
Le 13/05/2022 à 09:30, Heiko Tietze a écrit :
> @all: Discourse is coming and Sophi asked about some details. Gave my 
> 2¢, no strong opinion on any topic, and wonder what you think. Please 
> comment.
>
> On 11.05.22 16:33, sophi wrote:
>  > Hi Heiko,
>  >
>  > Here are some questions we will need answers from your team to ease the
>  > migration and/or forum settings
>  >
>  > On categories/subcategories:
>  > To create the categories you need on the Discourse Community 
> instance, we would
>  > like to know:
>  > - will you use category only?
>
> What is the alternative?

That means no more mailing list, only Discourse forum

>  > - shall we close the mailing list after migration
>
> No, the ML should remain.
>
>  > - what category should we create (name it as it should appear in
>  > Community)?
>
> This is a question to everyone: I'm thinking of
> * Design (UX/design tasks like mockups),
> * Patches (simple easyhacks patches for example about terminology),
> * Vision (rather far-fetched ideas)
> * Presence (discussions about current topics)
> * Meetings (what this ML is lately most about)
>
> Given that we have not much discussion on the ML we could also start 
> with just one pot.
>
>  > - what sub categories should we create (name them as they should 
> appear in
>  > Community)? Note there is no third level categories.
>
> Understand Categories as a subcategory of all LibreOffice Discourse 
> topics. Having more hierarchy would be an overkill.

You will share the forum with NLPs and other projects. Imagine the FR 
project having also a Meeting subcategory, I don't think you want to 
share the content in French and English :) see how it's organized here:
https://communitytest.documentfoundation.org/
>  > - what color do you want for your category?
>
> Green, white?
>
>  > On subscription/preferences
>  > Now, there are several options that can help the migration. All these
>  > options are accessible in the preferences, but please let us know 
> what we should
>  > do:
>  >
>  > - shall we mass subscribe mailing list users to Community?
>
> Thought topics on Discourse would be forwarded to the ML and vice versa 
> anyway.

This is not possible as you can read it on the ticket. This is why you 
have to decide if the whole project migrate to Discourse or if you will 
use both mailing list and Discourse.
>  > If yes, could you notify them to create a SSO account if it's not 
> already done.
>
> Sending a message to the ML sounds feasible :-)
>
>  > And in case they use different mail addresses, to add them all at
>  > https://user.documentfoundation.org/edit
>  > - shall we preset the category to in the watched list for "regulars" and
>  > "digesters" subscribers. That means that they will receive email 
> notifications
>  > for each post under a watched category.
>
> Would be nice if users could configure the kind of notification. It's 
> something one can opt-in on the ML as well.

Users can configure their choices, but Guilhem can do some presets 
during the configuration of the category to help the migration.
>  > Note that it's not possible to send digest mails, instead it's one
>  > message per post, one message for each new thread, or no notifications
>  > at all.
>  > - nomailers subscribers will be ignored as there is not this 
> possibility on
>  > Discourse. Please inform your community
>  >
>  > - who should we subscribe to the category moderators.
>
> Volunteers, step forward
>
>  > On migrating archives:
>  > - do you want the archive of the list to be migrated to your category 
> and
>  > subcategories
>
> If you mean the listarchive this might be a nice to have, if we retire 
> this service.

Cheers
Sophie

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