Re: [Caml-list] Change policy on beginners list?

[Christophe Troestler <Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>]

Hi,

Discourse sounds like a nice solution to me, meeting the various points 
that were expressed.

My 0.02€,
C.

On 2017-05-11, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> 
> On 11 May 2017, at 20:19, Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday, 11 May 2017 at 20:10, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> >> I would be happy to keep contributing with an email-based workflow,
> > 
> > What about http://lists.ocaml.org/ ? 
> 
> We can create a beginners list there very easily on request 
> (infrastructure@lists.ocaml.org).
> 
> One other option that I can arrange to setup is Discourse 
> (discourse.org), which is an open-source forum with a nice e-mail 
> gateway (so it can be used purely in email based mode as well).  Quite 
> a few open source projects use it as a good method of asynchronous 
> communication.
> 
> There is a hosted version that I can arrange to be installed on a 
> ocaml.org subdomain, but I will need at least a couple of volunteers 
> to create categories and act as administrators for the site.
> 
> An advantage of such a Discourse-based forum is that it should be 
> possible for OCaml library authors to easily create categories on the 
> same forum to direct users of their software to, with minimal 
> reconfiguration required. It would be great to have an area for those 
> (e.g.) interested in JavaScript compilation to go to.
> 
> To see an example of Discourse in action, the Rust user forum is one 
> good example: https://users.rust-lang.org.
> 
> regards,
> Anil
> 
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