What about Zulip?

[vstinner (Victor Stinner)]

Do we plan to keep Discourse+Zulip?

[ammaraskar]

According to

Python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

Hello committers, since this got pretty long, here’s the tl;dr: we’re at the point where it is hard to make mailing lists work for us; we’re switching to Discourse; it’s better in many ways; go to https://discuss.python.org/ and create your account there; please do not post to python-committers for the remainder of the year to give Discourse a real shot. And now the long version. What’s the issue? During the core sprint in Redmond we discussed how we discuss. The overwhelming feel is that …

Zulip will act as a replacement for IRC whereas discourse is for the mailing lists.

[ambv (Łukasz Langa)]

I don’t think dropping Zulip or not needs to be an edict. If people keep using it and it serves a unique role then fine. If Discourse fills it well enough and Zulip stops being used organically, that’s also fine.

[vstinner (Victor Stinner)]

@ammaraskar

Zulip will act as a replacement for IRC whereas discourse is for the mailing lists.

I dislike Zulip. Me and others still use IRC You cannot fully replace a communication channel, only promote it enough to make sure that the critical mass moves to the new shiny one

[vstinner (Victor Stinner)]

@ambv

If Discourse fills it well enough and Zulip stops being used organically, that’s also fine.

Ok. We will see. I agree that there is no need to decide it right now. But I had to ask the question.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Another Discourse team member here

Just for the record, we think of chat & forum platforms as highly complementary. One does not replace the other:

Effectively using Discourse together with group chat

[esbeeb]

I just installed Zulip yesterday from a Docker container (for my own testing purposes).

I love it so far, but be warned it’s CPU hungry. If a giant community were to all pile onto Zulip, that had better be a beefy Zulip server (or servers, say maybe splitting out the DB onto a second server).

[Mariatta]

The good thing is we’re using the hosted zulip, (not running our own servers) so I don’t think we need to worry about the infrastructure part.