[gmx-developers] gmx-developer mailing - update and future

[Alessandra Villa]

Hi again,
I just got a concern on having the developers posts visible to everybody on
the forum.  GROMACS forum is continuously scanned by crawlers. In the
developers category, posts on the Wedsnesday meeting (including details of
the zoom room) will be set. I can not estimate if this could cause
not-project-related persons  mis-using  the zoom information or disturbing
the call. An alternative is to have the developers category visible  to all
the forum users (this also includes sign-in GROMACS users that do not
belong to the developers group).
Maybe it can be discussed on next Wedsnesday.

Alessandra

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 2:52 PM Alessandra Villa <
alessandra.villa.biosim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for all the inputs. The issue with the mailing-list is still not
> solved. So I have started to work on the forum implementation. Here some
> information on the new setting:
> I have created a category "developers" under forums.gromacs.org
> (discourse forum). The category matches a mailing-list setting. The posts
> are visible to everybody, but only members of group GROMACS developers can
> post. To join the developers group, one can sign in to the forum and send a
> request following the instruction in the category description.
> Once things are set, I will mail a date  for the transition.
>
> Kind regards
> Alessandra
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 8:13 PM Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 9/21/22 1:58 PM, Benson Muite wrote:
>>
>>
>> - a reserve category under discourse emulating the mailing-list setting,
>> where only member can post, accessible via email and via the web interface
>> (visible to everybody or only the members)
>>
>> LAMMPS (https://matsci.org/) and Kitware (https://discourse.kitware.com/)
>> use discourse
>>
>>
>> I like the way the user forum is working under Discourse. I think it is
>> very easy to interact with it in a mailing-list style while also having
>> useful features like attachments, formatting for code snippets, etc. Having
>> a developer-only forum would be useful, in my opinion. It could be visible
>> to the rest of the community but perhaps permissions can be set so that
>> only verified developers can access it to post.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>> - chat type channel
>>
>> Have used selfhosted Mattermost and Zulip. A number of communities also
>> use Matrix.
>>
>> - or other suggestions/ideas
>>
>> Maybe something could be developed here:
>>
>> https://bssw.io/blog_posts/applications-open-for-the-2023-bssw-fellowship-program
>> funding restricted to US institutions
>>
>>
>> Paul kindly agrees to present the topic on Wednesday. It will be good to
>> know what are the thoughts about this.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Alessandra
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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