This is an interesting discussion but the question that occurred to me from it was:
“Is this Fedora Discourse site built using Fedora?”
At various times I have tried to build Discourse on Fedora but only ever got something working with the simpler development version . . and I have never seen any other post saying that they have been successful - so, it this Fedora Discourse site running on an Ubuntu container?
We are subscribing to the hosted service the company behind Discourse[1] on whatever they run. I expect it’s Ubuntu LTS based on their development docs. It’d be cool if they used Fedora Linux, but, hey, it is Linux and open source. Maybe we can convince them some time in the future.
Is this a failure to eat our own dogfood — or drink our own champagne, as the case may be? Eh, I think it’s all good — we can’t force other people, and it’d be only hurting ourselves if we demanded it of anyone we want to collaborate with. (I mean — we do collaborate with other distros ourselves!)
I think I looked at that some time ago and it has problems - can’t remember details now. I also thought about Podman instead of Docker for the Ubuntu container but one of Discourse gurus looked at it and said it would be a fair bit of work - that was more recent but still some time ago . .
Given that this has now happened, does that give Red Hat any more leverage to “encourage” CDCK to produce a Fedora version of Discourse? - surely now RH is a more important client and deserves some increased consideration?
Well, we definitely get some, but I don’t think it’s really that kind of leverage. We’re still a very small fraction of their paid business (and I have no idea how much Canonical is paying them for https://discourse.ubuntu.com/, for that matter).