armbian
Moving development related discussion to Github
In one of the last weekly developer meeting an interesting idea came up which was to move board development related discussions from forums to Github.
The reasons @SteeManMI, @igorpecovnik and @rpardini pointed out are that development itself happens on Github anyways, developers most likely have a Github account but not a forum account and also may not want to create one. This increases our chances to attract new developers. Also linking issues and proper formatting is present in Github while not in forums.
Therefore the suggestions is to enable the Github discussions feature (https://docs.github.com/de/discussions) for the build repository and set the current "board bring up" forums to read-only with a hint about this change.
What structure should Github discussion have? As for myself I think a single "forum" is enough to replace current one in Community forums. Also there was the question about the necessity of moderation then where I think this won't be an issue.
Suggestions or objections? @armbian/board-maintainers
Corresponding meeting: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/25730-armbian-developers-meeting-1112023/#comment-157588
@EvilOlaf good idea.
Hopefully helps decouple what's community open source development priorities from whatever initiatives of Armbian that are commercially driven.
@EvilOlaf, I like this idea. Why don't we start with a single forum and see how it goes?
https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1529 Jira summary above. Regarding the meeting where this was discussed the tl;dr is this will be postponed by a couple of month or when there is some spare time to prepare everything like announcements, forum adjustments and so on. So we have still some time to discuss on this and/or collect further input :grinning:
for the build repository and set the current "board bring up" forums to read-only with a hint about this change.
We would like to avoid users opening user land and kernel bugs as issues to the build framework. Yes, we direct them into forums now ... but some people will always ignore rules and recommendations.
Board bring up is one thing and this is actually the least problematic. A PR was opened and within that and we had discussions there ...
We have more problems with users opening bugs whenever they found a submit button. To have bug tracker clean, we close wrong requests, but we could also move them elsewhere.
Transferring an issue from one repository / project to another is simple. Possible destinations:
- https://github.com/armbian/os
- https://github.com/armbian/community
This IMO should be solved before discussions itself.
This cannot be solved entirely. Some cleanup will always be necessary. Also often people simply don't know due to lack of technical understanding (a discussion if a SBC is the correct toy for those folks is a different story). I would not open issues on another repository since this increases fragmentation even more and renders forums to certain extend useless/not needed anymore.