Hi all,
as I already mentionned, a few months ago Jeff Atwood, the original
founder of StackOverflow and more recently Discourse offered us a
100% free hosting of whatever discussions we want on the Discourse
platform.
It came just at the right time because I predicted that we would
start to see people want to share some Lua scripts and the mailing
list is not suited to this. It's not easy to search a mailing list's
archives nor is it to have a quick index to existing contents.
Over last week-end, Jeff and Neil helped me set up something to start
with. I found that it would also make sense to share some configurations
so that people can participate in improving some possible templates
resulting in less issues being reported here.
Let me remind you that I'm a total dumbass when it comes to trying to
achieve anything using a web browser. So I did what appeared logical
and intuitive enough to me, that might not match your taste. Comments
are welcome.
The site is organized in categories. For now there are only 3, we'll
see how things go and may add more depending on feedback :
- site feedback : report any suggestion or issue with the site.
- configuration samples : place where people can discuss and share
configurations.
- Lua scripts : same for Lua scripts
Maybe later we'll add an "articles" section so that people can share
their experience by writing articles about certain subjects. We may
also add a "junk" or "test" category for those who just want to run
some tests, but this will probably require an automatic cleanup and
I don't know if we can do that yet.
In order to start a discussion, either you find a topic which matches
your discussion and you participate to it, or you create a new topic.
Please try to be as clear as possible and avoid creating tons of useless
topics.
We have the possibility to have several administrator accounts, so once
things are on the right tracks and some participants show a great
involvement, I'll propose to some of them to become admins.
Please, do not use this platform to report bugs or seek for some
assistance for now, that's not the purpose. This may change in the
future when admins share the management effort, but one thing at a
time please.
So please test it, send your feedback there in the site feedback
category. Be gentle with me, I'm debuting :-)
The URL for this new platform is http://discourse.haproxy.org/
Thanks to Discourse for this!
Willy
