Re: [libreoffice-website] Discourse as a proposal to replace Ask

El 2020-04-30 06:46, William Gathoye (LibreOffice) escribió:
> On 30/04/2020 12:25, sophi wrote:
> > [...]
> > So here is the rough idea. I would like to have your feedback on it> 
> > [...]
>
> Big +1 for me.
>
> > [...]> Again I'm well aware that Discourse is not the perfect tool
> > [...]
> No tool is perfect, but the latter is well maintained, with a big
> comunity, and like you said, we don't have to wait days and even weeks
> to get answers from the current only dev.
>
> Also, we are likely to have less timeout and 500 errors with Discourse
> as well, even if the latter, written in Ruby, is quite heavy server 
> side
> and *leaking memory* (had to deploy some instances when I had my own
> company back in the days).
>
> What's nice is that maintenance, fixes and features provided by
> Discourse and its community are quite huge, from extensions, to skins
> and well designed themes, there is everything to make a community from
> 2020 happy.
>
> > [...]
> > Let me know also if you want to participate to the test.
> > [...]
>
> I would like to. Especially to see how the migration of content can be
> completed. For example, it shouldn't be possible for users to comments
> on questions that have been closed and marked as duplicate after the
> migration, etc.
>
> > Migration script is here
> > https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/askbot.rb
>
> Asking the community to contribute is great, but this is always the 
> same
> problem. Community members cannot locally deploy their own version of
> what we have now and cannot help directly. That's the same problem I
> have been describing since Feb 2018 now (the WordPress blog at that 
> time).


Community can work on improving the migration script, for instance. So 
we can assure the whole knowledge base will be transferred to discourse.



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Daniel Armando Rodriguez

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