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Bug 445853

Summary:	[RfD] Replace Forums and Newsgroups with Discourse
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	marcel.bruch, sebastian.zarnekow, webmaster, zoltan.ujhelyi
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht

2014-10-03 05:07:50 EDT

NNTP is a dinosaur and the webmasters like to get rid of it. I never got used to the forums web interfaces. We need both currently to allow us dinosaur to communicate with our user community.

However, I find myself using StackOverflow like interfaces quite often and I like them. What if we replace the Eclipse Forums as well as the Eclipse Newsgroups with a single system that works in this way across many devices?

I recently looked into StackOverflow like systems for another project and discovered Discourse.

   https://github.com/discourse/discourse

My proposal is to replace Newsgroups and Forums with Discourse.

Comment 1 Sebastian Zarnekow

2014-10-03 05:15:26 EDT

An alternative would be to use Stackexchange or even Stackoverflow directly. Moving a community to another platform is quite an effort. Instead of introducing a new platform, we can't we piggy back on an existing platform that has already a very high adoption rate?

Comment 2 Marcel Bruch

2014-10-03 05:51:01 EDT

I dislike the forums as they are today. I don't use nntp. I only use mailing lists because they are easy to use and work with (own filters, simply reply, no new client).

Would discourse require me to monitor yet another webpage like SO?
FWIW, I've mixed feelings to use SO. Pro: there is a community that answers questions. Con: for some discussions or announcements SO is not a good fit IMHO.

Comment 3 Paul Webster

2014-10-03 06:27:33 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 437064 ***

Comment 4 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2014-10-03 06:45:58 EDT

(In reply to Sebastian Zarnekow from comment #1)
> An alternative would be to use Stackexchange or even Stackoverflow directly.
> Moving a community to another platform is quite an effort. Instead of
> introducing a new platform, we can't we piggy back on an existing platform
> that has already a very high adoption rate?

There is an old bug and that has been closed. AFAIK the main problem with moving off of Eclipse Foundation hardware are legal and backup/ownership of data.