Maybe it's an indication that putting monetary resources into these infrastructure projects (especially in light of KDE's current job hire initiative) would be a good idea?
To be clear, this is not to say anything about the imo outstanding jobs of the current voluntaries. On Feb 23, 2021 23:53, "Ben Cooksley" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:26 AM Nate Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello faithful Sysadmins (with kde-community and Adam CCd), >> > > Hi Nate, > > >> >> I would like to formally request that a KDE discourse instance be set up >> as a testbed for now, with the ultimate goal of replacing the somewhat >> moribund forums.kde.org if people prefer it. >> >> Over the years I've seen this suggested multiple times by multiple >> people, but without much movement. Since then, the Krita people have set >> up a Discourse instance themselves, outside of KDE infrastructure. Many >> other FOSS communities already use Discourse, including Debian, Ubuntu, >> Fedora, Manjaro, GNOME, and Mozilla. >> >> I think it's time for us to follow suit and set up an official discourse >> instance on KDE Infrastructure. >> >> Last I heard, there was an objection based on the fact that its >> deployment mechanism requires Docker. I don't care much for Docker >> myself, but if it's the only way to set up Discourse, I think it's time >> to bite the bullet and use it despite reservations, so we can facilitate >> this longstanding request from the KDE community. >> > > May I take this as a formal request from yourself that Gitlab CI is > deprioritised and delayed? > > Based on the extremely frequent requests we get concerning it in > #kde-sysadmin I am not sure if your request here is in line with general > community consensus. > > Also, be aware that Sysadmin currently has other infrastructure level > projects underway needed to get us off Ubuntu 16.04, which are currently > delayed because we haven't had anyone volunteer to assist us with adding > support for OAuth2/MyKDE to Reimbursements. > Based on the above, I assume you are also requesting that we delay this, > and accept the corresponding security issues that will accompany it when > Ubuntu 16.04 loses support in the coming months in order to get this > actioned? > > >> >> Nate >> > > Regards, > Ben >
