Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Next steps for the Discourse Community instance

Hi all,

Of course this applies to the l10n group too. So big question :) would 
you be interested in using Discourse instance instead of the mailing 
list? what is your opinion? what advantages would that bring to us?

Cheers
Sophie
Le 28/04/2022 à 15:50, sophi a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> As you are aware, we are conducting a test on Discourse to move on some 
> mailing lists. It is not possible to bridge mailing lists and have a 
> Nabble like gateway.
>
> Here are the options:
>
> - have a Discourse category only hosting a project (like Documentation, 
> UX/Design). Contributors can post directly in the forum or follow the 
> discussion and participate via notifications (received by mail). 
> Subscribers to the mailing list can be mass subscribed to Discourse and 
> the mailing list will be closed
>
> - for Native Language Projects: we could have the same as above with sub 
> categories per sub projects, see for example pt-BR who has Docs - 
> Qualidade - Geral as sub categories
>
> - have both mailing list and the corresponding Discourse category with 
> no cross communication channel between the two.
>
> - have Discourse read-only category mirroring a mailing list for example 
> the Announce lists.
>
> - have only a mailing list and nothing on Discourse.
>
> - for users@mailing lists, we won't create a user category on Discourse 
> Community because it will be redundant with the Discourse Ask instance. 
> So either you keep the mailing lists or if your language is not yet 
> there, we create a corresponding category on Ask.
>
> This decision shall be taken by project and by each native language 
> community. For example the Brazilian and the Spanish communities have 
> already decided to go to the first option (Discourse only). It seems 
> that Documentation will have both for the moment.
>
> Discourse Community test instance is here:
> https://communitytest.documentfoundation.org/
> Please have a look at the archives we imported and let us know if you 
> see issues or if you want to see how it works for your project.
>
> Redmine ticket with all the details:
> https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3567
> (and a *big thanks* to Guilhem for all his great work on this)
> Please read https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3567#note-15
> and further on archives migration.
>
> How to proceed next?
> Discuss with your project or your native language community and let us 
> know what you decided among the above options. I've set the reply to 
> this mail to go on the website list.
>
> When you let us know your decision, I'll send you another mail 
> containing several questions about the migration type we need to proceed 
> (mass subscribing list subscribers to the forum, import archive or not, 
> retain addresses, etc.)
>
> We would like to launch the instance at the beginning of June (as some 
> communities are really impatient after the test ;) but of course if you 
> are not decided at that moment, it's still possible to create new 
> categories once the instance is in production.
>
> Don't hesitate to come back to me if you have questions.
>
> Cheers
> Sophie


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