The Julia community has been growing rapidly over the last few years and discussions are happening at many different places: there are several Google Groups (julia-users, julia-dev, ...), IRC, Gitter, and a few other places. Sometimes packages or organisations also have their own forums and chat rooms.
In the past, Discourse has been brought up as an alternative platform that we could use instead of Google Groups and that would allow us to invite the entire Julia community into one space. Changing something established is tricky and so we decided to move slowly on this. Right now, we are only moving julia-dev to Discourse (see the corresponding post on julia-dev for a timeline). We would like to solicit feedback from the broader Julia community about moving julia-users to Discourse as well, and potentially other mailing lists like julia-stats. If you are interested in trying it out, please visit http://discourse.julialang.org. Discourse is organised by categories so *Development* is the new home for julia-dev and *General* would be the future home of julia-users. If we are happy with Discourse as a solution, we will move forward with the migration. The timetable would be roughly as follows: - About 4 weeks after the move of julia-dev, decision to be made if we move julia-users - Announcement on the mailing list, one week before the move. - Setting julia-users into read-only mode. - Final announcement. If you have feedback or comments, please post them at http://discourse.julialang.org/t/migration-of-google-groups-to-discourse or in this thread.
