Replace nix-devel by Discourse #220
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Seems a bit premature. We should first see how well Discourse works out. |
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We added a Discourse section to the community page in #218 |
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@edolstra do you have any specific concerns or is X more time enough? If the latter it would be good to set a deadline. |
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:+100: on discourse.nixos.org, but it would be very nice to import mailing list as we do the switch (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/import-the-mailing-list/66) |
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How about now? Most of the traffic has died on the mailing list |
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The subject should be something like "NixOS Discourse forum" since we didn't "move" the mailing list.
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| href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls"><strong>pull request on | |||
| GitHub</strong></a>, or <strong>send a patch</strong> to the <a | |||
| href="[%root%]nixos/support.html#mailing-list"><tt>nix-devel</tt> mailing list</a>. If you | |||
| href="[%root%]nixos/support.html#mailing-list"><tt>Discourse</tt> mailing list</a>. If you | |||
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Do we actually want people posting patches on Discourse? TBH I would prefer to remove the whole "send a patch" thing.
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Zimbatm created a category for receiving patches https://discourse.nixos.org/t/about-the-patches-category/477 and there is some discussion about it here https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-contribute-send-bugreport-without-github-account/475
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As long as there are people willing to apply the patches it doesn't hurt
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The rule still applies that a github maintainer needs to be assigned to each packages and modules
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| <p>NixOS development is coordinated on the <a | |||
| href="[%root%]nixos/support.html#mailing-list"><tt>nix-devel</tt> | |||
| href="[%root%]nixos/support.html#mailing-list"><tt>Discourse</tt> | |||
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Is this actually true? I think it is more coordinated on GitHub and IRC if anything.
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| href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos"><tt>#nixos</tt></a> on <a | |||
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| <li>You can use the <strong>mailing list</strong> <a | |||
| href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nix-devel"><tt>nix-devel</tt></a>.</li> | |||
| <li>You can use the <a href="[%root%]nixos/support.html#mailing-list"><tt>Discourse</tt> mailing list</a>.</li> | |||
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In several places this PR refers to Discourse as a mailing list. Why not just "Discourse" or the "Nix community forum"? Just because it has a mail gateway doesn't make it a mailing list.
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Okay. I changed all references to "Discourse" or "Discourse forum" in 76a4f50
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| href="mailto:nix-devel+subscribe@googlegroups.com">nix-devel+subscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.</li> | ||
| subscribe, visit the page and subscribe with GitHub or email/password.</li> |
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subscribe with GitHub -> login with a GitHub account?
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The new sentence is:
Discourse is a forum where we have discussions and help users out with their questions. Visit the page and register with GitHub or email/password: https://discourse.nixos.org/
Make the move official
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Thanks @zimbatm! |
This is a proposal to make the switch to reduce the number of discussion platforms that we use.