<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Oct 2018, at 00:38, Terry Reedy <<a href="mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu" class="">tjreedy@udel.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 10/11/2018 4:30 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">What concerns me is that there are several long-time and/or prominent<br class="">developers who are not even registered (*) on <a href="http://discuss.python.org" class="">discuss.python.org</a>. For<br class="">example Benjamin Peterson, Larry Hastings, Raymond Hettinger, Stefan<br class="">Krah, Terry Reedy.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This provoked me to sign up and spend a few hours reading and practicing. It seems to mix features from github issues and StackOverflow questions. One main difference from the latter is using categories instead of tags.<br class=""><br class="">If I wanted an IDLE category, should I post to Discourse Feedback?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Hi, Terry! Glad to see you. We are trying not to have too many top-level categories because it increases friction for first-comers. When you mentioned tags, I remembered that we can actually have those on Discourse, too. Maybe IDLE-specific topics could be tagged with "IDLE"? To show you how this works, I created a "governance" tag.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>You can filter the main page by tags using a dropdown next to "all categories". If you don't see it, your browser probably cached the main page, hit Refresh. By filtering on the main page, you're getting all topics on <a href="http://discuss.python.org" class="">discuss.python.org</a> which are tagged with "governance":</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://discuss.python.org/tags/governance" class="">https://discuss.python.org/tags/governance</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>You can also filter a specific category. These are topics tagged with "governance" in "Committers":</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://discuss.python.org/tags/c/committers/governance" class="">https://discuss.python.org/tags/c/committers/governance</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I think tags are attractive because you could have IDLE, AsyncIO, Typing, and so on. Sometimes they overlap so you could have a few tags on a single topic. And depending whether it's a Committers, Users, or an Ideas discussion, the topic would belong to the right category. What do you think, Terry?</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">Could I be made the moderator, with full powers at least for that category?</blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Discourse does not currently allow per-category moderation yet. This is planned but not implemented yet:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-1-rfc/21900/64" class="">https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-1-rfc/21900/64</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>As for global moderation, our current hosted Discourse plan (that we are getting from <a href="http://Discourse.org" class="">Discourse.org</a> for free) allows up to five staff members (admins + moderators). We'd probably want a few more so I'll talk with Ernest to maybe bump this a bit.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>- Ł</div></div></body></html>