Luca Beltrame kirjoitti 26.11.2018 klo 8.15:
Il giorno Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:58:48 -0200
Lays Rodrigues <lays.rodrig...@kde.org> ha scritto:
So, is it possible to add Discourse for KDE?
Given the burden on Sysadmin already, there needs to be someone
willing to shoulder this work (and go past their objections, like the
use of Postgres), at least for evaluation work.
Saying "is it possible" means it'll take a long time, or possibly never
occur. Saying "I'll do it" and following up (note: generic "I", not
addressing you in particular) has a higher chance.
As Luca said last month, there has been a lack of maintainers for the
existing forum for a long time. Thus, wouldn't it be a safer first step
to recruit someone to upgrade the existing forum to the latest version
of phpBB (which has evolved during all this time after all)?
It was said "Discourse is a bit more intuitive" than phpBB. I guess the
main thing this was referring to is the non-hierarchical navigation of
Discourse (displaying topics from all categories by default). I think
showing a big ol' list of recent topics would solve this for phpBB:
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/recent_topics_2/ (see also
the "Demo" for layout inspiration).
The main problem in any case will be getting enough engagement. I don't
think I have ever received a reply from a KDE developer in the current
forums.
Anyway, in the VDG chat it was revealed that the Chinese community has
experimented with various forum solutions. The CN openSUSE folks set up
a Discourse forum without Docker: https://forum.suse.org.cn/
With the help of this guide:
https://bcarlin.net/blog/discourse-without-docker.html
There is also a test instance of Flarum for KDE China:
https://forum.kde-china.org/
Flarum is certainly much easier to set up than Discourse:
https://flarum.org/docs/install.html
Ilmari
