Brian Wolff wrote:
On Friday, November 17, 2017, Quim Gil qgil@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