Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

2018-02-08 Thread Max Mehl
# hellekin [2018-02-01 11:05 +0100]: On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:26:42AM +0100, Florian Snow wrote: This may have been mentioned before, but there is a Discourse instance at community.fsfe.org. Hmmm, no there is not, only a broken page. Anyway, if it existed when I proposed my services last ye

Re: subdomains for testing things (was: forums, mailing lists and other tools)

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/02/18 08:27, Max Mehl wrote: > # hellekin [2018-02-01 11:05 +0100]: >> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:26:42AM +0100, Florian Snow wrote: >>> >>> This may have been mentioned before, but there is a Discourse instance >>> at community.fsfe.org. >> >> Hmmm, no there is not, only a broken page. Anywa

Re: subdomains for testing things (was: forums, mailing lists and other tools)

2018-02-08 Thread Max Mehl
Hi Daniel, # Daniel Pocock [2018-02-08 10:32 +0100]: Could we have a dedicated sub-domain for anything like this that is running as a test? Using a domain like "community.fsfe.org" runs the risk that it is perceived as or used as if it were a supported service. In theory yes, but in practice

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/02/18 09:44, Max Mehl wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > # Daniel Pocock [2018-02-08 10:32 +0100]: >> Could we have a dedicated sub-domain for anything like this that is >> running as a test? >> >> Using a domain like "community.fsfe.org" runs the risk that it is >> perceived as or used as if it were a

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Max Mehl
# Daniel Pocock [2018-02-08 11:00 +0100]: There is a distinction between people volunteering to maintain a service and the association choosing to rely on a service. This is particularly important in cases where two services do something similar (e.g. Discourse acts as an alternative to the exis

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/02/18 11:02, Max Mehl wrote: > # Daniel Pocock [2018-02-08 11:00 +0100]: >> There is a distinction between people volunteering to maintain a service >> and the association choosing to rely on a service. >> >> This is particularly important in cases where two services do something >> similar (

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hi Max, while I agree with you in general, I see a small problem here: On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:02:02 +0100 Max Mehl wrote: > > Discourse could work similarly. It has been set up by a group of > volunteers and we gave them a free hand. Later it might serve as a > communication platform for a specif

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Max Mehl
Hi Björn, # Bjoern Schiessle [2018-02-08 15:51 +0100]: If we want to test it seriously we need to advertise it to people who want to discuss FSFE activities and Free Software topic but prefer other tools like email. As long as it is in testing we can add a disclaimer that discussions at communit

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Daniel, Daniel Pocock writes: > How does using a domain with the word "test" in it somewhere create more > work? At some point, a service is at least supposed to go into production, so at that point, configuration files need to change, DNS records need to change, and links to the old subdoma

Re: forums, mailing lists and other tools

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 23/01/18 21:24, Florian Snow wrote: > Hi Stephane, > > > Stephane Ascoet writes: >> Le 29/01/2018 à 09:53, Daniel Pocock a écrit : >>> You can simultaneously solve your problems with public transport and >>> finding a date by purchasing a motorbike. >> >> Hi, I can't believe how much you're

Re: subdomains for testing things

2018-02-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/02/18 17:51, Florian Snow wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > > Daniel Pocock writes: >> How does using a domain with the word "test" in it somewhere create more >> work? > > At some point, a service is at least supposed to go into production, so > at that point, configuration files need to change,

Re: Nordic Free Software Award

2018-02-08 Thread Guido Arnold
Hey Jonas, On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 03:08:57PM +0100, Jonas Oberg wrote: > > happy to announce that nominations are now open for the Nordic Free Software > Award. You can read about it and send your nominations here, for somoene in > the Nordic countries you feel have made a prominent contribution

Re: Nordic Free Software Award

2018-02-08 Thread Jonas Oberg
Hi Guido, > Before I start spreading the word: what does the "?newtest=Y" do? > > I just want to avoid leading people submitting "new test nominations" > instead of real ones. > > https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/167339 looks just the same to me. You can use the latter URL without problem :-