Thanks to the hard work of the admins and moderators of the Qubes OS forum, and the thriving community there, the forum has become the place that the qubes-community project was originally meant to be - and much more. In a recent discussion between Qubes OS "documentation" people - the forum admins/mods, the official qubes-doc maintainers, and us qubes-community admins - we agreed that it would make sense to migrate most of the qubes-community documentation to the forum's "Guides" section.
The main reasons for doing so are:
visibility /and as a corollary, avoiding duplication/: there is a significant amount of posts in the forum in which people are asking questions (or providing solutions) that were documented here on qubes-community - that for some reason they didn't find.
ease of use/contribution: admittedly, Discourse - the forum's underlying platform - makes it a lot easier to contribute than GitHub/git.
avoiding document "rot": with wiki-type guides, an easy-to-use platform, and easy-to-find resources, we hope that people will contribute more frequently to existing guides, even if that means simply posting a short but helpful comment.
unifying licensing: qubes-community content is GPLv2 but to avoid hindering the spread of information we're contemplating migrating to CC BY 4.0 (more on this below - this will obviously require original contributors to agree to the potential license change)
[edit] - Maintaining the documentation's high level of quality on a more "open" platform was obviously a major concern. Please see this explanation by the forum moderators on how they will handle this.
We'll begin migrating the resources to the forum in the next few weeks, with the exception of severely outdated resources, pending PRs to the official qubes-doc repository, or resources whose contributors are opposed to migrating.
The original authors, github pages, and commit dates will be appended to the forum's guides; the qubes-community project will become read-only once the guides are migrated and ongoing PRs accepted.
So - we would need your input on the following things:
OK / Not OK for migrating your contribution from GPLv2 to CC BY 4.0.
optional: if for some reason you don't want your contribution to be migrated to the forum (if so, it would help to know the reason but it's obviously not required).
optional: your forum username, if you're a forum member and want to be notified when the migrated guide is edited on the forum.
You can contact us by the following means (alternatively, you can just put a "thumb up" to this post if you agree with the license change and you're not opposing having your contribution migrated to the forum):
ghost
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1 year ago
Dear qubes-community contributors,
Thanks to the hard work of the admins and moderators of the Qubes OS forum, and the thriving community there, the forum has become the place that the qubes-community project was originally meant to be - and much more. In a recent discussion between Qubes OS "documentation" people - the forum admins/mods, the official qubes-doc maintainers, and us qubes-community admins - we agreed that it would make sense to migrate most of the qubes-community documentation to the forum's "Guides" section.
The main reasons for doing so are:
visibility /and as a corollary, avoiding duplication/: there is a significant amount of posts in the forum in which people are asking questions (or providing solutions) that were documented here on qubes-community - that for some reason they didn't find.
ease of use/contribution: admittedly, Discourse - the forum's underlying platform - makes it a lot easier to contribute than GitHub/git.
avoiding document "rot": with wiki-type guides, an easy-to-use platform, and easy-to-find resources, we hope that people will contribute more frequently to existing guides, even if that means simply posting a short but helpful comment.
unifying licensing: qubes-community content is GPLv2 but to avoid hindering the spread of information we're contemplating migrating to CC BY 4.0 (more on this below - this will obviously require original contributors to agree to the potential license change)
[edit] - Maintaining the documentation's high level of quality on a more "open" platform was obviously a major concern. Please see this explanation by the forum moderators on how they will handle this.
We'll begin migrating the resources to the forum in the next few weeks, with the exception of severely outdated resources, pending PRs to the official qubes-doc repository, or resources whose contributors are opposed to migrating.
The original authors, github pages, and commit dates will be appended to the forum's guides; the qubes-community project will become read-only once the guides are migrated and ongoing PRs accepted.
So - we would need your input on the following things:
You can contact us by the following means (alternatively, you can just put a "thumb up" to this post if you agree with the license change and you're not opposing having your contribution migrated to the forum):
qubes-migration@mailbox.orgThanks !
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