Re: Sample Forum
My position hasn't really changed much but I spoke to Apache infra and here is the overall summary: * Apache infra don't have a huge appetite for hosting an Apache internal copy of Discourse. They could set us up a VM and we could host it ourselves but they wouldn't encourage it since often when projects do this they underestimate the resources required to maintain and keep it up to date and they end up with lots of unmaintained services lying around hardly being used. * They'd encourage us to use Pony Mail instead of nabble as something to encourage people to use which is backed by the Apache mailing lists: https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@groovy.apache.org * They'd happily accept pull requests/patches to get things like pretty code formatting happening within Pony Mail. * They'd recommend using the external hosting service just for the users list. Most of our "conduct all official business" on the mailing lists obligations are with respect to the dev list. Wrt the users list, if we conduct a poll or something like that we'd need to summarise the results back in the users list, similarly if people start posting patches into the forum we should encourage them to go via other channels, PRs, pony mail, the Apache users mailing list directly etc. So, it get's back to whether we can support yet another channel. I am happy to give it a try but already find myself stretched across the existing channels, so can't promise super fast feedback in such a forum. Cheers, Paul. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:29 AM, Nathan Harveywrote: > Bump. The forum will only be up for another week. Paul, any more thoughts > on > this? > > > > -- > Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html >
Re: Sample Forum
Bump. The forum will only be up for another week. Paul, any more thoughts on this? -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html
Re: Sample Forum
Nice work Nathan, that certainly is a more pleasant user interface than nabble but I don't ever use nabble but rather just email clients. I'd certainly be happy advertising something like this as another alternate informal channel for Groovy communication alongside Slack and StackOverflow. If there was a way to make emails show up on the mailing list we could possibly take it further. Would this only be possible if Apache hosted their own discourse instance? Is that possible? I suspect that is what is really needed. We have a requirement to conduct all official project business using Apache mailing lists but really I believe the underlying requirements are: * Being able to link users back to an Apache user id is useful for checking CLA agreements have been signed etc. PMC members/Committers have a responsibility to check this. * Having Apache Infrastructure being able to vouch that messages haven't been tampered with which is important from an Apache Legal point of view. * Hard requirement for Apache Members and Apache Board members to be able to peruse our mailing lists in the same way as other projects. * Single point of call for anyone to go to see all official decisions made by the project. * An ability to also have a private list so that things like security issues can be discussed before being made more widely available. Cheers, Paul. On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Nathan Harveywrote: > The delay can be removed, no worries :). The posts from the forums do not > show up on the mailing list, but they show up as emails as if they were > part > of a mailing list. Basically the idea is that people don't have to leave > their email client if they don't want to. Apologies if that was unclear. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html >
Re: Sample Forum
The delay can be removed, no worries :). The posts from the forums do not show up on the mailing list, but they show up as emails as if they were part of a mailing list. Basically the idea is that people don't have to leave their email client if they don't want to. Apologies if that was unclear. -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html
Re: Sample Forum
Let me clarify the two minute delay. When you start composing your post (on the forums, not from email) you of course have an unlimited amount of time for writing your post. Once you post it on the forums, it is posted to the forum instantly, but the email to people receiving emails alerts is not yet sent. After two minutes the email alert will be sent. This gives you time to fix a mistake , if you made one, before the email is sent out. When you post directly from your email client, there is no intentional delay. I see your post in my email! Thanks for giving it a try :) -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html
Re: Sample Forum
Hi Nathan, Thanks for your spending time on setting up the forum. I tried just now, it's amazing! As for the following feature about delay sending, I wish you could remove it(and wish send the mail without any delay)... because if we are editing and have not completed in 2 minutes but the mail is sent, then the mail is not complete... ``` Quick note: when you post a topic, there is a 2 minute window in which you can make edits before it is sent out to email subscribers, so if you experience delay that is why. ``` P.S. I replied your "Improving named-argument support" thread, looking forward to seeing it in mailing list ;-) Cheers, Daniel.Sun Cheers, Daniel.Sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html
Sample Forum
Hi guys, today I have set up a sample Discourse forum for everyone to use. You can find it here: http://groovy.trydiscourse.com/ This forum is configured to behave almost exactly like a mailing list, for those who want it. You can mail in topics. For example, send an email to: groovy+us...@discoursemail.com - you should not have to create an account for this to work. It will create one for you. In addition, if you create an account on the forums, you are by default subscribed to the categories of the forums, just like the mailing list. New topics will trigger an email sent straight to your inbox, to which you can reply. Obviously you can reply to them on the forum as well. When replying via your email client, you should take advantage of using Markdown syntax. I've also created a sample topic (copied from the mailing list) for you to view on the forum, so you can appreciate the modern forum experience that Discourse offers: http://groovy.trydiscourse.com/t/improving-named-argument-support/15. I encourage you to look at the current equivalent here: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Improving-named-argument-support-tp5746753.html for comparison. Please feel free to make your own topics and see how they interact with your email client and let me know if you have any problems. Quick note: when you post a topic, there is a 2 minute window in which you can make edits before it is sent out to email subscribers, so if you experience delay that is why. -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html