While discord has some nice benefits there is something to be said about just sticking with the software we already use.
What I mean by this is phabricator has a similar system called "Ponder" Here is a live demonstration of it: https://secure.phabricator.com/ponder/ Aaron Carlisle Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:21 AM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently the possibility of using a forum was suggested > as a way we can help on-board new developers. > > A quick summary of the issues with current communication channels: > > - Realtime chat is too timezone sensitive *. > - Bf-committers mailing lists aren't setup for Q&A. > while responding to some questions from interested dev's is OK, > noisy discussions are discouraged. > > I suspect some people might be too shy to ask questions on our > official mailing list too. > My impression is IRC is getting a reputation as having a higher barrier of > entry > with alternatives like Slack, Mattermost, RocketChat .. etc. gaining > popularity. > > In a discussion with the other admins we considered doing a trial run > of a blender-developer forum. > Unlike the old blender.org forums, which had too much overlap with > blenderartists.org > this would focus on people working with Blender's code, developer > tools and anything related to becoming a committer. > > User questions, feature requests - would be off topic, there are > better places that handle this. > > It's hard to know if this is really needed or how much it would be > used, there have been a handful of times > new developers have asked questions in bug reports, but further I cant > say for sure. > > When talking with Bastien Dalai & Sergey, our main concern is the time > needed to respond to posts, > that we end up in a similar situation to what we already have with patch > review. > > > Proposal > -------- > > - Create a forum using discourse: > https://www.discourse.org > see rust-lang's forum as an example: > https://users.rust-lang.org > > - Appoint someone to be responsible for triage, they can contact > maintainers if it's needed. > The intent here is to take some pressure off maintainers for > handling day to day posts. > It's possible it ends up being an unnecessary role, it's just to > avoid diffusion of responsibility > > - Maintainers who already spend time helping others should not need to > spend more time doing this. > As a rule of thumb - time helping others on the forum can replace > some time helping out in IRC. > > - This is to help people who are serious about getting into Blender > development > anything else can be redirected to the appropriate site or closed if > it's really off topic. > > - Trial run for a fixed time-frame (3-6 months for eg). > if it's not working well after we've made a reasonable effort, close it. > > Thoughts and suggestions welcome. > > ---- > > * Newer online chat systems support stored scroll-back, > making real-time chat work better across time-zones, even so, > switching away from IRC is a different topic and not part of this > proposal. > > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
