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

[Runhang Li <marklrh@gmail.com>]

Hi, all

+1 for Discourse.

Personally I have no preference over mailing list/IRC/Slack/Discourse. But in order
to appeal to and grow our community, we'd better set up some modern
infrastructure besides Yahoo mailing list and IRC.

And I would love to help maintain Discourse in my free time.

> On May 11, 2017, at 1:26 PM, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm fine with having a different mailing-list or Discourse or both
> (beginner questions tend to be relatively independent, so I don't see
> much downside in having two places if we think both can appeal
> different people), and would be happy to keep irregularly helping
> there. But we need people to volunteer to deploy and maintain these
> places.
> 
> (Re. Discourse, see the (positive) feedback I got from
> users.rust-lang.org on their Discourse instance:
> https://users.rust-lang.org/t/what-are-rusts-discourse-hosting-plans-and-time-requirement/6462
> )
> 
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Christophe Troestler
> <Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be> wrote:
>> 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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