Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-23 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > I assume many have muted or are ignoring the "thankspam" thread, but it has > changed topic rather meaningfully, and I think it deserves broader > attention. I see now why Discourse is a problem... I wanted to install

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-23 Thread Erik Bernhardson
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Andrea Zanni > wrote: > > Why? > > As a user, you would just need to login and participate, Discourse is > like > > a website. You don't need to install

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-23 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Erik Bernhardson wrote: > FWIW, there is a docker role in wikimedia puppet and it's already used as > part of the labs infrastructure. Not sure how well tested it is yet, but > it's there. In this case I see a kind of solution: *

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-23 Thread Vituzzu
Il 23/01/2016 21:34, Milos Rancic ha scritto: I am speaking as an admin, not as a user :P In brief, software is not stable. And it's not just that, but the developers don't know their software well enough to offer a sensible installation guide. I wouldn't use such software. Let's say we can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-23 Thread Andrea Zanni
Well, Discourse is new but it's growing fast: http://www.discourse.org/faq/customers/ Plus Mozilla: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/ and OKFN: https://discuss.okfn.org/ I personally think that it could really help new people participate in our discussions, so it's worth a try. Aubrey

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-23 Thread Erik Bernhardson
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Erik Bernhardson > wrote: > > FWIW, there is a docker role in wikimedia puppet and it's already used as > > part of the labs infrastructure. Not sure how well

[Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-15 Thread Asaf Bartov
I assume many have muted or are ignoring the "thankspam" thread, but it has changed topic rather meaningfully, and I think it deserves broader attention. A. -- Forwarded message -- From: Luis Villa Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:31 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

2016-01-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Discourse is fine when it means that I will still receive my email and can answer in that way. Thanks, GerardM On 15 January 2016 at 17:34, Asaf Bartov wrote: > I assume many have muted or are ignoring the "thankspam" thread, but it has > changed topic rather