On 8/21/25 15:53, Olivier Dion wrote:
Hello fellow Guilers,
Would there be interest for having a Guile forum for the community? A
place to share ideas, projects, recipes and ask questions.
Currently, the Guile community has the IRC channel and a user mailing
list. The IRC channel is volatile and logged but search engines do not
seem to be indexing the logs. The mailing list on the other hand is
archived online and is indeed indexed, but it is not trivial to search
in it, even for people used to it. We also have some sparse blog posts
there and there.
I think it would be great to have a forum as a persistent and easily
searchable means of communication. I also believe it would be a way to
bound together different communities, e.g. Guix, Hoot, lilypond
Of course, I expect no less than the entire web-site to be written in
Guile with Hoot + a Emacs package to browse it.
Thoughts?
Regards,
old
Hello Olivier,
I agree, that it would be cool to have a forum. (Just please not another
dysfunctional discourse forum ...)
I have thought about starting to develop a forum several times, and of course in
my favorite language GNU Guile. So far the state of database connectors and
tooling around that, and the sheer amount of work needed to make an OKish forum,
including things like login and possibly OAuth2 or stuff like that, has kept me
from even starting. In theory it sounds doable, but in reality I think it is a
lot of work. Probably some useful libraries in the area of web development would
fall out of this, if attempted.
Haven't developed any Emacs package or anything with Hoot yet.
Perhaps someone more productive than me, and with the required energy can get a
forum implementation started. Or perhaps it could be done iteratively, by
planning ahead what libraries are needed and those being separate projects, that
aim for making them nice to work with in conjunction. (Wait, that might be
called a web framework ...)
I think a traditional PHP (ugh) Bulletin Board forum or something like that
might also work though. Not eating our own dog food, but at least we would
already get a forum. I have thought about setting up an oldschool kinda forum
many times for friends and myself, but never did it, because of being lazy or
thinking no one would use it. But for a programming language community, it could
work. A forum though, needs moderators. Maybe less so than many other
communities, but still.
Best regards,
Zelphir
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