Hi community! I totally agree with you Federico. I'm glad to inform you about that: The University of Urbino, the organization I work for, will provide a virtual machine to install discourse. I'm working on It!
Il giorno dom 18 nov 2018 alle ore 14:40 Federico Capoano < [email protected]> ha scritto: > 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. > -- 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.
