Nice work, and a thank you to Atwood!
Occasionally I see (or help people) with haproxy configs on reddit. some of them may be useful as config examples in the new discourse site. As a matter of preference, would you prefer we describe the config example, and then link to the reddit post (or thread) or would you prefer a description and a cut/paste of the config example directly into the new discourse space? An example for reference: A total HAProxy newcomer wants to use haproxy in his home lab. had a handful of basic questions. I typed up a basic config to get him started in 1 of 2 scenarios (using DNS hostnames, or not) My response with config examples is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/3vmktv/haproxy_setup/cxrk16k Would like to know how you'd prefer this kind of scenario to be handled. On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > as I already mentionned, a few months ago Jeff Atwood, the original > founder of StackOverflow and more recently Discourse offered us a > 100% free hosting of whatever discussions we want on the Discourse > platform. > > It came just at the right time because I predicted that we would > start to see people want to share some Lua scripts and the mailing > list is not suited to this. It's not easy to search a mailing list's > archives nor is it to have a quick index to existing contents. > > Over last week-end, Jeff and Neil helped me set up something to start > with. I found that it would also make sense to share some configurations > so that people can participate in improving some possible templates > resulting in less issues being reported here. > > Let me remind you that I'm a total dumbass when it comes to trying to > achieve anything using a web browser. So I did what appeared logical > and intuitive enough to me, that might not match your taste. Comments > are welcome. > > The site is organized in categories. For now there are only 3, we'll > see how things go and may add more depending on feedback : > - site feedback : report any suggestion or issue with the site. > - configuration samples : place where people can discuss and share > configurations. > - Lua scripts : same for Lua scripts > > Maybe later we'll add an "articles" section so that people can share > their experience by writing articles about certain subjects. We may > also add a "junk" or "test" category for those who just want to run > some tests, but this will probably require an automatic cleanup and > I don't know if we can do that yet. > > In order to start a discussion, either you find a topic which matches > your discussion and you participate to it, or you create a new topic. > Please try to be as clear as possible and avoid creating tons of useless > topics. > > We have the possibility to have several administrator accounts, so once > things are on the right tracks and some participants show a great > involvement, I'll propose to some of them to become admins. > > Please, do not use this platform to report bugs or seek for some > assistance for now, that's not the purpose. This may change in the > future when admins share the management effort, but one thing at a > time please. > > So please test it, send your feedback there in the site feedback > category. Be gentle with me, I'm debuting :-) > > The URL for this new platform is http://discourse.haproxy.org/ > > Thanks to Discourse for this! > Willy > > -- Jeff Palmer https://PalmerIT.net
