Chapel mailing lists changing to Discourse

[Brad C. <bra...@hp...>]

Dear Chapel mailing list subscribers —

After years of talking about it but failing to act, we've finally started 
the process of retiring Chapel's SourceForge-hosted mailing lists (the 
ones where you're receiving this message) in favor of a more modern, 
ad-free way of supporting discussions within the community via email or 
the web.  Specifically, we've launched a Chapel Discourse site.

If you're not familiar with Discourse, it's a web-based technology for 
discussions that can be used both from a browser or in more of a mailing 
list mode.  Discourse supports 'topics' sorted into 'categories' where you 
can think of:

* topics = an email thread or a discussion thread on a web forum
* category = like a mailing list or a tag/folder on a web forum

We invite and encourage everyone subscribed here to register and to join 
us for further discussion about Chapel at:

 	https://chapel.discourse.group/

Once you've registered, I suggest:

* taking a look at the 'Categories' tab, which is a good way to get an
   overview of the site, particularly if you're coming from a mailing list
   mindset:

 	https://chapel.discourse.group/categories

   Each top-level category should have a pinned "about this category" post
   that's intended to describe what it's for and how you can post to it via
   email, once registered.

* Decide which categories you want to follow or mute.

* Take a moment to introduce yourself to the community:

 	https://chapel.discourse.group/t/introduce-yourself/

* Send us your questions and feedback in the "site feedback"
   category:

 	https://chapel.discourse.group/c/site-feedback



At some point this fall, we will be disabling the SourceForge mailing 
lists, but for a time, we'll keep both forums going while people work on 
converting over.


Looking forward to further Discourse with you,
-Brad (on behalf of the Chapel team at HPE)