What should be the categories on the XWiki Discourse?
- Copying the lists:
- Users
- Devs
I think these are too cryptic and don’t mean nothing. Also I see that the “Uncategorized” was renamed as “Users” - I think this change needs to be reverted, since ‘Uncategorized’ is the default, but I don’t think ‘Users’ describe it well.
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We can also have hidden categories for a particular level, so we could also replace the committers list with a “Committers” category.
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We can activate also tags in order to not spam with too much categories. Tags can also be user added and these can grow organically.
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We could use categories for the repositories, like
- Platform
- Rendering
- etc. still these are also technical.
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We could have a “Contrib” category to ask questions / send repo requests for the contributed extensions.
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We could have categories for the Flavors we will create and one for “Applications”/“Extensions”. The problem here is for users to not confuse the Discourse with an issue tracker and report problems and support questions here.
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We could have a “Development” category with subcategories like
- “Roadmap”
- “Votes”
- “Proposals”
- “Releases” - although these should be covered by the website
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We could have categories also for the XWiki.org or the localization l10n website.
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We might need also a ‘GSOC’ category, or maybe just a tag, or maybe we don’t care.
Other ideas?
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