I agree Ishan, just wanted to mention what I can donate from my company anyway. Happy to allow a customized logo and colors for the Solr section and allow a redirect from solr.apache.org/discussions it that's something useful. Cheers -------------------------- *Alessandro Benedetti* Director @ Sease Ltd. *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer* *Apache Solr PMC Member*
e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied Consulting | Training | Open Source Website: Sease.io <http://sease.io/> LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/company/sease-ltd> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/seaseltd> | Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx86ZKLYNpI3gzMercM7BQ> | Github <https://github.com/seaseltd> On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 15:32, Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would prefer if this discussion forum is hosted at an official domain, > e.g. solr.apache.org/discussions or something like that. That's the only > right way to support an official solution. > > Can ASF help us here in any way? > > On Tue, 16 May, 2023, 2:09 pm Alessandro Benedetti, <a.benede...@sease.io> > wrote: > > > We have been working for the last few months on an upcoming Information > > Retrieval forum: https://ir-relevant.net > > > > This will be a fully free forum, sponsored by my company. > > We have an Apache Solr section: > > https://ir-relevant.net/forums/forum/search-technologies/apache-solr/, > and > > I would be happy to donate it to the Apache Solr project, I can add all > the > > committers that are interested as moderators. > > The forum already implements gamification, a modern UI, and easy archive > > (and SEO for Google and searchability of topics) > > It will be live in the next couple of weeks, we are fixing some final > bugs! > > > > Let me know! > > > > Cheers > > > > -------------------------- > > *Alessandro Benedetti* > > Director @ Sease Ltd. > > *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer* > > *Apache Solr PMC Member* > > > > e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io > > > > > > *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied > > Consulting | Training | Open Source > > > > Website: Sease.io <http://sease.io/> > > LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/company/sease-ltd> | Twitter > > <https://twitter.com/seaseltd> | Youtube > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx86ZKLYNpI3gzMercM7BQ> | Github > > <https://github.com/seaseltd> > > > > > > On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 22:12, Ishan Chattopadhyaya < > > ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > This is a great idea! I think this is a much better alternative than > > > current user and dev lists, which are handicapped by an atrocious UX > for > > > browsing archives (PonyMail). > > > > > > On Tue, 16 May, 2023, 1:34 am David Mackey, <d...@davemackey.net> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > At yesterday's meeting I suggested that discussion forums might be > > useful > > > > for managing tension in communications and increasing the visibility > / > > > > popularity of the Solr project. At the time this didn't seem viable > due > > > to > > > > the centrality of mailing lists to ASF's communications but Eric > > > suggested > > > > that if other projects where using forums that Solr could as well. > > > > > > > > *(ASF Projects Using Discussion Forums)* > > > > I did some research and discovered that a number of ASF projects are > > > using > > > > forums: > > > > > > > > - Airflow <https://airflow.apache.org/community/>, Pulsar > > > > <https://github.com/apache/pulsar/discussions>, RocketMQ > > > > <https://github.com/apache/rocketmq>, ShardingSphere > > > > <https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere>, StreamPipes > > > > <https://github.com/apache/streampipes>, and Doris > > > > <https://github.com/apache/doris> are all using GitHub > Discussions > > > > <https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions>. > > > > - TVM <https://tvm.apache.org/> uses Discourse > > > > <https://discuss.tvm.apache.org/>. > > > > - OpenOffice.org <http://openoffice.org/> uses phpBB > > > > < > > > > > > > > > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php?sid=b4a0ff493ecb816d6a05cceaeee19283 > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > > *(Refined Role Proposal for Discussion Forums)* > > > > Understanding better the fundamental nature of mailing lists to ASF > > > > projects I'd like to suggest a more tightly scoped implementation of > > > > discussion forums for the Solr project: > > > > > > > > - As an adjunct to, not replacement of, mailing lists. > > > > - With a focus on answering questions that users/developers have > > that > > > > are informational rather than decision making. > > > > - And perhaps some early stage idea discussions before they are > > ready > > > > for a serious proposal. > > > > > > > > (*Advantages of Discussion Forums to Solr Community)* > > > > I think this would offer the Solr community a few different > advantages: > > > > > > > > - *Visible Vitality *- The Solr project has vitality but it isn't > > > > entirely visible. An active forum (discuss.elastic.co) can > provide > > > this > > > > visibility. > > > > - *Redundant Question Reduction* - Forums provide a way for users > to > > > > find answers to questions that might otherwise be asked repeatedly > > in > > > > Slack > > > > chats or on the mailing lists. > > > > - *Content Creation* - Users create valuable content (which is > > indexed > > > > by search engines) through their discussions. > > > > - *Noise Reduction* - If at least some informational / idea > > > discussions > > > > were occurring in the forums the volume of emails on the mailing > > list > > > > would > > > > be reduced. > > > > > > > > *(Recommended Implementation)* > > > > While GitHub Discussions would be the easiest to implement I would > > > > recommend Discourse. GitHub is developer-centric and as such would > > likely > > > > exclude most (non-dev) users. > > > > > > > > Discourse (the org) offers Discourse (the software) as a hosted > service > > > for > > > > free < > > > https://blog.discourse.org/2018/11/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/> > > > > to open source projects. > > > > > > > > I'm happy to help if this is something the Solr community would be > > > > interested in. Thanks for taking the time to read and consider. > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Dave Mackey > > > > > > > > > >
