I'll try to be brief because I don't want to use too much of your time. The community is growing and some of the ways which were working up to now are not working so well anymore.
Here's how I propose to address the issues, let me know what you think. *Git repositories: branch protection and write access* I just implemented the following change: most of the important repositories of the OpenWISP 2 modules and documentation have their master branch protected to avoid accidental damage. I added a core development team on github which has write access to most of these repositories but won't be allowed to push to master without going through a pull request review. The core development team on github will be "liquid", we can add new active contributors and remove contributors who are not active anymore often. *Discussions* I'm not sure that as we grow this mailing list is the best tool to communicate. Sure it's comfortable for me but I'm not sure for new contributors if it is so for the following reasons: - many people are receiving all emails and as the volume of discussion increases many will most probably stop reading or unsubscribe - some new subscribers are not used to mailing list and are probably not aware of the fact that they should limit their communications to the bare minimum - I believe some users/contrbutors are mainly interested in one specific area of OpenWISP and would probably prefer to receive updates of new discussions that are only relevant to that area That's why I'm starting to consider the option of using discourse <https://www.discourse.org>, which seems to be working well in the OpenWRT community (and other communities as well). This change would likely require time before we implement it correctly. A considerable amount of work would be needed to do it, not just because we'd have to install and maintain a discourse instance, but also because this change should be reflected in the website / documentation, users would have to be imported (not sure how that plays out with privacy regulations), the structure / categories and rules of the eventual new discourse instance should be created before completing such a move. Best Federico -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
