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Re: Proposal: add a forum

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ClosingAp Open Source Integrators Europe, LDA, Daniel Reis
- 01/03/2023 11:09:17
I sympathize with this proposal.
We could experiment with it and confirm it could replace the Contributors mailing list.

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.

Thanks
Daniel

On 01/03/2023 09:16, Jairo Llopis wrote:
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?

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