ParticipationSystems/Discourse

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Discourse is a communication platform "for the next 10 years". It features a clean web interface, mailing list features and much more.

This page contains all the important details about and for the use, setup and development of Discourse within Mozilla.

Governance

Module Name	Module Owner	Module Peers
Discourse	yalam96	Tanner

RACI (proposed April 2017)

RACI	Programmatic	Technical	Infrastructure
Responsible	Yousef Alam, Leo McArdle	Leo McArdle	Yousef Alam
Accountable	Leo McArdle	Henrik Mitsch
Consulted	Jason Bradford, Gervase Markham, Rubén Martín, Henrik Mitsch, Sean Rich, George Roter, Janet Swisher, Jorge Villalobos	Upstream
Informed	Discourse Users

Discourse Team

What does the team do?

• Advocacy
• Set policy for, and review:
  → category requests
  → reported posts
  → requests like name changes
  → Other misc. moderation tasks
• Track feature requests
  → Surface their recommendations to IT/Ops to implement
• Development
  → Implements features requested

Members

Yousef	Operations
Leo	Development

Current instances

• Mozilla Discourse
• Mozilla Advocacy Community
• Mozilla Learning Forum

Documentation

Requesting a category

To request a category, please fill out this form.

Requesting an instance

If you're sure your community needs their own instance of discourse, you can file a bug in Infrastructure & Operations :: Community IT: Discourse.

Development

ParticipationSystems/Discourse/Development

Infrastructure

ParticipationSystems/Discourse/Infrastructure

Issue Tracking

We currently track our development and programmatic issues in Taiga.

Plugins

These are the plugins which run on our Discourse instances:

Mozilla maintained

https://github.com/orgs/mozilla/teams/discourse/repositories

Discourse + Auth0 + Mozilla

Discourse plugin enabling Auth0 Single Sign On on Mozilla's instances

Maintainer: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/discourse-auth0-mozilla

Instances: Mozilla Discourse

Email All

Allow an admin to email everybody

Maintainer: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/discourse-email-all

Instances: Mozilla Discourse

Mozillians

Mozillians magic for Discourse

Maintainer: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/discourse-mozillians

Instances: Mozilla Discourse

Webmaker ID

Discourse plugin which adds Webmaker authentication

Maintainer: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/discourse-webmaker-id

Instances: Mozilla Learning Forum

Expose Emails In

Discourse plugin which exposes category emails-in in useful ways

Maintainer: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/discourse-expose-emails-in

Category Categorization

Discourse plugin which enables categorization of categories

Maintainer: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/discourse-category-categorization

Third-party

Akismet

give spam a whoopin

Code: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-akismet

Instances: Mozilla Discourse

Contribution

• Contribute to our site theme
• Become a part of our Discourse Team