On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 05:39:28PM +0000, Ankur Sinha wrote: > I'm not so sure. I think Discourse works well for team discussion, but > we don't do a lot of that here. The list here is generally used for > announcing information/opportunities for newcomers.
To me, the forum-like interface of Discourse seems more friendly to newcomers than a mailing list, and we can do things like make sticky posts, have graphics, etc. > Most of our discussion happens on Pagure tickets. That's the way Design works too. > Do we want absolute newcomers to go to Discussion.fp.o? Even with > categories, Discourse doesn't have the clear boundaries that mailing > lists do. Muting categories to opt-out is the opposite of explicitly > subscribing to mailing lists. So, there's so much happening there---do > we want newcomers to dive right in? Hmmm, yeah, I see upsides and downsides to this. It can certainly be a little intimidating. On the other hand, I kind of do want to say that it'd be _ideal_ if newcomers feel like they can dive right in. > I think we currently try to prevent this in the Welcome-to-Fedora > system. We first get newcomers to learn the high level bits on Fedora > and only when they're comfortable enough do we direct them to teams and > tasks. ... and this is clearly working, so I don't want to break something that is! > > Here's an example ticket: > https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Welcome-to-Fedora/issue/76 > > (On a related note, the magazine, as a public facing official Fedora > platform, is obviously very attractive to new contributors. It works as > an excellent contribution gateway but do we have some info on whether > magazine contributors stick around and get involved in other regular > Fedora community development related activities: technical or otherwise?) I can't (immediately, although there are some ways to look at this I should play with) speak to magazine -> other activities, but I was just talking to Paul about this and his sense was that using Discourse was creating a lot more "stickiness" of new contributors. Previously, there were a lot of one-off "hello" posts and 95% of those didn't stick around. Now, while there's still some of that, it's noticably better. -- Matthew Miller <[email protected]> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
