We have been working for the last few months on an upcoming Information Retrieval forum: https://ir-relevant.net
This will be a fully free forum, sponsored by my company. We have an Apache Solr section: https://ir-relevant.net/forums/forum/search-technologies/apache-solr/, and I would be happy to donate it to the Apache Solr project, I can add all the committers that are interested as moderators. The forum already implements gamification, a modern UI, and easy archive (and SEO for Google and searchability of topics) It will be live in the next couple of weeks, we are fixing some final bugs! Let me know! Cheers -------------------------- *Alessandro Benedetti* Director @ Sease Ltd. *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer* *Apache Solr PMC Member* e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied Consulting | Training | Open Source Website: Sease.io <http://sease.io/> LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/company/sease-ltd> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/seaseltd> | Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx86ZKLYNpI3gzMercM7BQ> | Github <https://github.com/seaseltd> On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 22:12, Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a great idea! I think this is a much better alternative than > current user and dev lists, which are handicapped by an atrocious UX for > browsing archives (PonyMail). > > On Tue, 16 May, 2023, 1:34 am David Mackey, <d...@davemackey.net> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > At yesterday's meeting I suggested that discussion forums might be useful > > for managing tension in communications and increasing the visibility / > > popularity of the Solr project. At the time this didn't seem viable due > to > > the centrality of mailing lists to ASF's communications but Eric > suggested > > that if other projects where using forums that Solr could as well. > > > > *(ASF Projects Using Discussion Forums)* > > I did some research and discovered that a number of ASF projects are > using > > forums: > > > > - Airflow <https://airflow.apache.org/community/>, Pulsar > > <https://github.com/apache/pulsar/discussions>, RocketMQ > > <https://github.com/apache/rocketmq>, ShardingSphere > > <https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere>, StreamPipes > > <https://github.com/apache/streampipes>, and Doris > > <https://github.com/apache/doris> are all using GitHub Discussions > > <https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions>. > > - TVM <https://tvm.apache.org/> uses Discourse > > <https://discuss.tvm.apache.org/>. > > - OpenOffice.org <http://openoffice.org/> uses phpBB > > < > > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php?sid=b4a0ff493ecb816d6a05cceaeee19283 > > > > > . > > > > *(Refined Role Proposal for Discussion Forums)* > > Understanding better the fundamental nature of mailing lists to ASF > > projects I'd like to suggest a more tightly scoped implementation of > > discussion forums for the Solr project: > > > > - As an adjunct to, not replacement of, mailing lists. > > - With a focus on answering questions that users/developers have that > > are informational rather than decision making. > > - And perhaps some early stage idea discussions before they are ready > > for a serious proposal. > > > > (*Advantages of Discussion Forums to Solr Community)* > > I think this would offer the Solr community a few different advantages: > > > > - *Visible Vitality *- The Solr project has vitality but it isn't > > entirely visible. An active forum (discuss.elastic.co) can provide > this > > visibility. > > - *Redundant Question Reduction* - Forums provide a way for users to > > find answers to questions that might otherwise be asked repeatedly in > > Slack > > chats or on the mailing lists. > > - *Content Creation* - Users create valuable content (which is indexed > > by search engines) through their discussions. > > - *Noise Reduction* - If at least some informational / idea > discussions > > were occurring in the forums the volume of emails on the mailing list > > would > > be reduced. > > > > *(Recommended Implementation)* > > While GitHub Discussions would be the easiest to implement I would > > recommend Discourse. GitHub is developer-centric and as such would likely > > exclude most (non-dev) users. > > > > Discourse (the org) offers Discourse (the software) as a hosted service > for > > free < > https://blog.discourse.org/2018/11/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/> > > to open source projects. > > > > I'm happy to help if this is something the Solr community would be > > interested in. Thanks for taking the time to read and consider. > > > > Sincerely, > > Dave Mackey > > >
