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Re: Proposal: add a forum

Hello,

Organization-wide discussions have been enabled in Github:
https://github.com/orgs/OCA/discussions

They can be used as an experiment.
The Contributors will still be the main communication channel, until we evaluate and make a final decision on this.

Note that many people may not be aware of the Discussion features, and could miss the threads there.
So when starting a thread in Discussions, consider announcing it in the Contributors ML too.

Thank you
Daniel

On 03/03/2023 10:03, Jairo Llopis wrote:
El mié,  1 de mar de 2023 a las 10:12:32 AM, Daniel Reis <notifications@odoo-community.org> escribió:
A candidate for this might be
https://github.com/OCA/odoo-community.org

It already holds reference documents, such as CONTRIBUTING or Bylaws.
I can see it as the central place for global documentation regarding OCA, like an entry door to the community.
I don't think a PSC would be needed for it.

I agree. Somebody with permissions could configure that in about 5 minutes, and we can start experimenting.

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by Daniel Reis - 03:01 - 10 Mar 2023

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  • Proposal: add a forum
    Hello! I want to propose something I hope will help everybody communicate better :)

    Many of you might have notice that since long ago Github includes a discussions feature that can be enabled per repo.

    Since not-so-long ago, there's a possibility to enable discussions for a whole organization. The implementation is rather simple: just select one repo from the org that becomes the "main forum repo".

    Communicating through mailing lists looks very old-fashioned these days. 🧓 Every decent community has a decent forum, be it discourse or github discussions or whatever.

    IMHO the best solution would be:
    1. Create a new repo. We can call it "community" or "oca-forum" or "oca-discuss"... you name it
    2. PSC for this repo would be community moderators. Maybe a new PSC group?
    3. Set it as main discussion repo, organization-wide.
    4. Gradually deprecate the mailing list.
    Benefits of this approach:
    1. Look more modern.
    2. We can edit answers.
    3. We can put polls.
    4. We don't need to send mails with +1.
    5. We can link to comments.
    6. Community discussion more close to where the community actually works.
    7. Less things to maintain in odoo-community.org
    That doesn't mean we can't enable discussions for specific repos, to become more focused, just like it's done in OpenUpgrade. But at least we have a general place to talk asynchronously about general stuff, just like we have the Matrix/Discord community for synchronous communication.

    WDYT?
    by Jairo Llopis - 10:15 - 1 Mar 2023