On Thu, 21 Aug 2025, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@posteo.de> wrote: > On 8/21/25 15:53, Olivier Dion wrote: >> Hello fellow Guilers, >> >> Would there be interest for having a Guile forum for the community? A >> place to share ideas, projects, recipes and ask questions. >> >> Currently, the Guile community has the IRC channel and a user mailing >> list. The IRC channel is volatile and logged but search engines do not >> seem to be indexing the logs. The mailing list on the other hand is >> archived online and is indeed indexed, but it is not trivial to search >> in it, even for people used to it. We also have some sparse blog posts >> there and there. >> >> I think it would be great to have a forum as a persistent and easily >> searchable means of communication. I also believe it would be a way to >> bound together different communities, e.g. Guix, Hoot, lilypond >> >> Of course, I expect no less than the entire web-site to be written in >> Guile with Hoot + a Emacs package to browse it. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Regards, >> old > > Hello Olivier, > > I agree, that it would be cool to have a forum. (Just please not another > dysfunctional discourse forum ...) > > I have thought about starting to develop a forum several times, and of course > in > my favorite language GNU Guile. So far the state of database connectors and > tooling around that, and the sheer amount of work needed to make an OKish > forum, > including things like login and possibly OAuth2 or stuff like that, has kept > me > from even starting. In theory it sounds doable, but in reality I think it is > a > lot of work. Probably some useful libraries in the area of web development > would > fall out of this, if attempted. > > Haven't developed any Emacs package or anything with Hoot yet.
I was joking about everything in Guile and emacs package. Although I be happy to see that happen. I agree that we are lacking web framework for that right now. I believe a very simple traditionnal forum in the spirit of the early 2000s would be great to start with. [...] Thanks, Olivier -- Olivier Dion oldiob.ca
