Brian Wolff wrote:
On Friday, November 17, 2017, Quim Gil
<qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The Technical Collaboration team proposes the
creation of a developer
support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New
Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on Discourse
(starting with a pilot in
discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org) and to point
the many existing scattered channels there.
What does point existing channels to discouse mean exactly? Are you
planning to shutdown any existing channels? If so, which ones?
Excellent questions. I'd like to know the answers as well.
I raised a similar point at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Discourse>. I skimmed
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155678>, looking for some answers, and
I didn't find any.
Quim, are you involved in MediaWiki support in places such as the
#mediawiki IRC channel or the mediawiki-l mailing list? Are you involved
in MediaWiki support elsewhere? I'm trying to better understand how it
would be appropriate for you to seemingly suggest disrupting or shutting
down these established and functioning venues. If this is not your
suggestion, I'd like to understand how adding a venue will improve matters.
MZMcBride