Le dimanche 06 novembre 2016 à 01:49 -0800, Andreas Lobinger a écrit : > Hello colleague, > > > 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? You can have a look at the previous thread about this: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/4oDqW-QxyVA/lw71uqNGBQAJ
I also encourage you to give a try to Discourse (this can be done without even creating an account on their test instance). > Why do you think (can you prove?) more centralisation will happen > with discourse? Centralization will be made possible by allowing for sub-forums dedicated to each topic (stats, optimization, data...) inside Discourse itself, instead of creating totally separate mailing lists as is currently done. Of course people will still be free to use something else, but that's quite unlikely. > > 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'. "We" meant "Julia core developers". > > 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. The idea was that we would like to see how well it works by having people use Discourse for this discussion. But as you noted there's this thread for people who don't want to to that. Regards > Wishing a happy day, > Andreas
