[Starlingx-discuss] StarlingX Adoption discussions in PTG

[Saul Wold]

On 6/10/20 12:32 AM, Imtiaz, Taimoor wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I was going through the PTG discussions and etherpads and came across 
> the topic of community and users. Although I’m a new-ish member of the 
> community, I’d like to highlight some things we can also look at:
> 
> *Discussion Forums (Discourse, GitHub Discussions)*:
> 
> We are using mailing lists for all discussions today. Most cloud-native 
> projects are using Discourse forums (e.g. Kubernetes 
> <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/>, Docker <https://forums.docker.com/>, 
> LXC, LXD, LXCFS <https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/>, etc. – virtually 
> everyone in this space is part of a Discourse community. I want to 
> double-stress this point actually).
> 
Your welcome to participate in those forums and report back if there are 
issues, but I don't think we want to maintain 2 communication channels, 
as I believe Discourse is both a forum and mailing list combined.

I know this has come up in the past, StarlingX as part of the OpenStack 
Foundation chose to use IRC, as you point out below, IRC has been around 
for a long time and it's used by many, many Open Source project beyond 
just OpenStack.

Please come and participate in the community call [0] on Wednesday mornings.

Thanks for your input.

Sau!

[0] 
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Starlingx/Meetings#7am_Pacific_-_Technical_Steering_Committee_.26_Community_Call
> GitHub recently announced the Beta of Discussions 
> <https://github.blog/2020-05-06-new-from-satellite-2020-github-codespaces-github-discussions-securing-code-in-private-repositories-and-more/#discussions>. 
> If STX is looking to build a community there, Discussions might be a 
> nice, low-cost place to host the community.
> 
> Besides this, many communities have Slack and Discord teams. But forums 
> are infinitely more discoverable (if we’re not talking about ad-hoc 
> discussions).
> 
> *Participation in other communities + Adoption Stories:*
> 
> We need to be heavily present (announce CVEs, project updates etc.) in 
> the Kubernetes discussion forums and Slack.
> 
> CNCF has regular posts from adopters of Kubernetes. If we have users who 
> have adopted STX for their edge, we should invite their architect to 
> promote their company’s blogpost on CNCF’s blog. I think it’s great 
> promotion for the user’s product and for the STX community.
> 
> *Fin’:*
> 
> In my personal experience: I’ve been using and talking about STX for the 
> last 6 months. It is strange that for talking about STX internally, 
> we’re using tools like MS Teams and Slack or Yammer/Discourse/PlanetBlue 
> within our respective companies but the community has a 2^nd class 
> experience.
> 
> In my opinion mailing lists and IRC are not the most modern way of 
> managing large communities for modern, cloud-native projects. I’m sorry 
> if this was already discussed some time ago and this is a repetition 
> (Discourse has cool features to resolve these sorts of discussions btw. 😉)
> 
> Best
> 
> Taimoor
> 
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