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Re: How can functional people "really" participate in OCA?

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Camptocamp SA, Simone Orsi
- 11/02/2020 16:25:21
Hello,

I share Pedro's opinion on the fact that wikis won't solve the problem and will soon become messy.

Personally I don't think Github is so ugly for functional people. It's just a matter of getting used to it (but I'm a techy and I might miss some barriers).

To discuss functional issues or propose changes they can open an issue in a specific repository and start a thread there.
If they want to use g-docs (or whatever public tool) to enrich the discussion they can use it and link it in an issue.
In this case, I see only one main problem: we have many repos by area (eg: product or warehouse) and the scope of such discussions might be broader.

Having a forum would be nice as long as there's people taking care of moderation.

Forum options:

1. use the odoo module on our instance

Pros:
a. we have all in one.
b. it's already there and could preserve legacy discussions

Cons:
a. it sucks in terms of UI, would require some work (see https://odoo-community.org/groups/contributors-15)
b. if the site is off, the forum is off as well

2. use a self-hosted external tool as https://www.discourse.org/

Pros: really nice and effective
Cons: one more service to maintain

3. use an external service

Pros: nothing on our shoulders
Cons: no control on it


A note regarding the ML not being available to external people: is not true. You can access it here https://odoo-community.org/groups/contributors-15 but as I mentioned above it would need a lot of love to be improved.

My $0.02.

Bests,


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:57 AM Pedro M. Baeza (Tecnativa) <pedro.baeza@tecnativa.com> wrote:
Well, I personally think the wikis will become a collection of unrelated things and non maintainable stuff, and don't bother if I call "laziness" what is sometimes called "functional scope", but if the rest think is good, go ahead.

Regards.

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