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* A Forum for Guix Users
@ 2023-07-13 13:52 Sarthak Shah
  2023-07-13 14:05 ` Robby Zambito
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From: Sarthak Shah @ 2023-07-13 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guix Devel

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Hey Guix,
I think we should seriously consider having a user forum similar to
Debian's User Forum or Nixos' Discourse.

As of now, it's a bit difficult for beginners to find answers to their
problems in the mailing list or in IRC logs as they aren't very easy to
navigate compared to forum threads. Seeing the situation with RHEL, I think
now's the perfect time for us to acquire new HPC/stability-oriented users
in particular, and I believe that most of them would not be very
IRC/mailing list-savvy either.
It would also immensely help to have community discussions and other forms
of information concentrated in one location instead of split over the IRC
and the mailing list.

If we are to go ahead with making a forum, I think I'm speaking for a lot
of people here when I say that I don't want a forum that cannot be used
without Javascript or cannot be built/deployed with Guix. Given these
constraints, Discourse is not a good option as it does not build on Guix.
phpBB and SMF are two good options we could look into, although they look a
little dated compared to discourse. Flarum might also be worth looking
into, but I am not sure if it will build properly on Guix.

Software suggestions as well as thoughts on this idea would be greatly
appreciated!

Regards,
Sarthak.

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* Re: A Forum for Guix Users
@ 2023-07-14 20:19 Andy Tai
  2023-07-14 21:17 ` Sarthak Shah
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 37+ messages in thread
From: Andy Tai @ 2023-07-14 20:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

forums are not good because they are not as transparent as mailing
lists--you can search the guix mailing lists with Google, Bing or
whatever search engine you use, for example. Forum? probably not

Maybe an editable (wiki) site for FAQ will be good for sharing common
questions/answers.


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* A Forum for Guix Users
@ 2023-07-18 11:45 Distopico
  2023-07-21  8:37 ` Etienne B. Roesch
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 37+ messages in thread
From: Distopico @ 2023-07-18 11:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

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I have been using and participating in other GNU distributions such as
Trisquel and Parabola, but mostly as beholder/viewer.

After more than 10 year the forum of Trisquel still active, not like 8
years ago before social media, but is active, and more important is used
mostly for new user, and non-technical user, also the Trisquel forum is
well indexed and when you try to find something related with Trisquel
the forums is the solutions for those issues usuall.y 

Trisquel also have mailing list but used mostly for dev/contributor and
the Irc for also for dev/contributors or more advanced users.

Parabola as well have a forum/Irc/mailing, but in this case the forum is
not quite active, maybe because the focus of parabola is more advanced
users, also as Parabola user as well I also check Archlinux
documentation to try to fix my issues or Archlinux forums because are
more complete.

So I don't think a forum crate fragmentation, and the Forum is an entry
place for beginners and unlike Parabola that has the documentation of
Arch, Guix need to have your own solutions and your own documentation
and a forum is a good place to build that.

So said that:
- Forum: A good place for beginner an non-technical user (I guess all
Guix user require some technical knowledge), also a good place for
create history and user documentation/solutions.

- Irc: For quick question, developer and contributor discussions and
  more advanced users (bridge to Matrix would be good).

- Mailing List: For contributors, developers, and more long-terms
  questions, as well more advanced users.

on the other hand I think that the mailing lists create a more conducive
environment for debate than the forum itself, but again, for new user a
Forum is a better place or to find quick solutions which on Irc are hard
to find.


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2023-07-13 14:40 ` Andrea Rossi
2023-07-13 22:38 ` vidak
2023-07-17  7:58   ` Etienne B. Roesch
2023-08-19 12:47     ` Simon Tournier
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2023-07-21 13:30   ` 宋文武
2023-07-18 11:45 Distopico
2023-07-21  8:37 ` Etienne B. Roesch
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