I got your previous message just moments before I sent this one, and read it afterwards.
I had no idea there was so many specs on something like this, but it makes sense there are. Kindest Regards, Bill Stephenson > On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > On 2020-03-12 13:28, Bill Stephenson wrote: >> I’ve recently pointed a few people on Reddit to this mailing list who were >> asking questions there. A forum would probably be a good thing to have. >> I’m not familiar with Discourse but it looks pretty simple to spin up a >> digital ocean vps. >> <https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/discourse?utm_campaign=marketplace&utm_source=marketplace#api-creation> >> “Mail-in-a-box <https://mailinabox.email/>” makes it pretty easy to set up >> an email server. DigitalOcean probably isn’t the best platform for that. I >> have one I setup there but it took some time to get the larger mail >> providers to unblock it. That’s probably the case no matter how you approach >> that though. Using a 3rd party service like MailChimp might be easier but >> would probably cost more. >> Unfortunately I’m not in a position to donate any cash to this but I could >> spend some time on getting Discourse up and running on a DO vps if that’s a >> viable option. > > Please don't take this step. Apache Infra needs to be aware of what's going > on, and fully support whatever approach is taken. Our community cannot be > seen to be "going around them" without some severe backlash. > > As I mentioned in my other email, let's work together with them to make this > happen. > > -Joan > >> Kindest Regards, >> Bill Stephenson >>> On Mar 12, 2020, at 9:32 AM, Garren Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> The CouchDB slack channel has been a real success with lots of people >>> asking for help and getting involved. The main issue is that it is not >>> searchable so we often get people asking the same questions over and over. >>> The user mailing list is great in that sense that if you have subscribed to >>> it you have a searchable list of questions and answers. However, it's >>> really not user-friendly and judging by the fact that it has very low user >>> participation I'm guessing most people prefer to use slack to ask questions. >>> >>> I've been really impressed with how the FoundationDB forum[1] and the rust >>> internal forum work [2]. I find them easy to use and really encourage >>> participation. I would like to propose that we move our user and dev >>> discussion to Discourse or a forum that works as well as Discourse. I think >>> that would make it really easy for users of CouchDB to look up answers to >>> questions and get involved in the development discussion. >>> >>> I haven't checked yet, but I'm sure we could get all discourse threads to >>> automatically email back to the user and dev mailing list so that we still >>> fulfill our Apache requirements. >>> >>> I know its a big step away from what we're used to with our mailing lists, >>> but I think it would definitely open up our community. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Garren >>> >>> >>> [1] https://forums.foundationdb.org/ >>> [2] https://internals.rust-lang.org/
