Hello everyone,
During yesterday’s meeting the @forums-governance team met to talk about some open discussions and next steps for these forums.
Attendees: @cquest @woodpeck @Nop @Firefishy @nukeador @Tordanik
Topics discussed
- Old forums migration progress
- Help OSM transition plan
- Moderation process
- Moderator election polls
Decisions
Migration next steps
@Firefishy and @cquest will work together to snapshot the current site and test a full migration, the desire is to be ready to do the final migration some time in May (exact date TBD based on early May test results)
Help OSM transition plan
@Firefishy will generate a report on how active the Help OSM old questions are to inform a decision on whether to generate an static site or evaluate if content migration is doable.
The Question and Answer plugin will be installed and tested.
Why? The current workload to test the old forums migration is taking already most technical time, any technical time on Help OS transition will have to wait. There is currently no script to migrate content from the Help OSM database.
Moderation process
@Nop in collaboration with @cquest and @nukeador will come with a proposal on a moderation guidelines, to help new moderators know how to deal with issues and enforce guidelines.
@Nop will also come with written guidelines to capture the current ones that are being applied to the German forum over the old site.
Why? It important that moderators have clear guidelines to follow when dealing with conflict and also a guide on how to operate using the discourse features.
Minutes
Full minutes of the meeting are available on the OSMF website:
2022-04-21 Meeting about community.osm.org and Discourse
Thanks to @Doro8ea for compiling them!