Fedora Account system groups now synced to Fedora Discussion!

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

We now have a link between groups in our account system and groups on this site. We can use this to connect Fedora team membership to various Discourse features. For details, check out this guide:

Fedora Accounts -> Discourse group sync: what teams need to know

We are now syncing Fedora Account System groups to Discourse! If your team has a group, this guide should cover what you need to know. If you have any questions not covered, comment below and we’ll update. What’s synced? There are many, many existing groups in the Fedora Account System, and many of them are special-purpose or obsolete. Therefore, we’re only syncing groups that also exist here — they need to be manually created by an admin. We’re also leaving some special-purpose Discourse grou…

[elvisvan]

what about forums.fedoraforum.org ? i found quite a lot of topics and discussions over there

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

That is an independent site run by Fedora community members, and not officially endorsed by or affiliated with the project.

[distro-nix (Michael 971)]

Just out of interest, is the Discord Discord Fedora’s office channel?
Can you point me to an explanation of Fedora’s plans to consolidate/merge or otherwise optimize the forums. Thanks.

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

@distro-nix

Just out of interest, is the Discord Discord Fedora’s office channel?

It is run by Fedora community members but isn’t official.

@distro-nix

Can you point me to an explanation of Fedora’s plans to consolidate/merge or otherwise optimize the forums. Thanks.

We don’t have any plans to shut down or consolidate community-run forums.

[distro-nix (Michael 971)]

@mattdm

We don’t have any plans to shut down or consolidate community-run forums.

“shut down” did not occur to me. All I really want to know is, what are the official forums run by Fedora.