Hello colleague, On Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 2:43:50 PM UTC+1, Valentin Churavy wrote: > > 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. >
What problem with the julia-users mailing-list and the google groups web interface is solved by using discourse? Why do you think (can you prove?) more centralisation will happen with discourse? > 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. > Please define 'We'. 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. > In some parts of the world, asking for feedback on a topic via a different medium is seen as unfriendly act ... but still there is this thread. Wishing a happy day, Andreas
