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Régis Perdreau Le ven. 14 août 2020 à 17:09, sophi <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi all, > > As a follow-up of this mail, our instance is now up and running here > https://vm222.documentfoundation.org/ > You can log-in with your SSO account. > We now need to discuss how to organize the categories, who will be > moderators, what is missing, well, all the things needed if we want to > migrate from Ask. > Looking forward to continue the discussion on Discourse! > > Cheers > Sophie > Le 30/04/2020 à 12:25, sophi a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to invite you to a discussion and later to a test on > > Discourse instance to evaluate the replacement of our Ask instance. > > Guilhem has not yet installed a test instance on our infra but he will > > do in the next weeks. > > > > The reasoning to a migration is that Ask is often seen as complicated by > > our users, it's not clear for them how they should comment or answer and > > even vote. On the admin side, their is only one developer and he is > > responding with long delays to our issues and requests. Our infra team > > is not able to maintain the instance. So the situation is really not > > ideal here. > > > > After spending some time on researching alternative tools, Discourse, > > however being not perfect, appears to answer most of our needs. We have > > 15 languages to handle and it seems the only one to deal correctly with > > the different scripts, fonts and research functions. > > > > If we are happy with the tests, then we will decide on the migration > > time. Ask instance would be deprecated. There is a script that allow to > > import Ask to Discourse. We will run it, but it may need some (or more!) > > work. > > The idea is to create one language per category, then it will be > > possible to have subcategories per language. > > Fedora community has migrated from Ask to Discourse last year, see here > > for an example of their forum https://ask.fedoraproject.org/ > > I will take attach with them to get feedback on their experience however > > they do not host their instance. > > > > So here is the rough idea. I would like to have your feedback on it. > > Again I'm well aware that Discourse is not the perfect tool, but I think > > it doesn't exist for a large and diverse community as ours (see also > > GNOME community for example, they also use Discourse). But if you > > have strong arguments against it or for it, please let me know. > > > > Let me know also if you want to participate to the test. > > > > Discourse documentation is here: > > https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-user-guide/96331 > > Redmine tickets for the migration are here: > > https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/2936 > > https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/2952 > > Migration script is here > > > https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/askbot.rb > > > > Thanks a lot in advance for your feedback! > > Cheers > > Sophie > > > > > -- > Sophie Gautier [email protected] > GSM: +33683901545 > IRC: sophi > Foundation coordinator > The Document Foundation > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
