SAC:Discourse

OSGeo hosts a Discourse server accessible at https://discourse.osgeo.org

The server is an LXD VM running on hosted on osgeo9 machine and administered by the OSGeo System Administration Committee.

It current allows OSGeo LDAP, OSGeo Gitea, GitHub, and sign up.

Gory details are in private https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/sac/discourse/wiki/discourse

Administration

All administrative tasks are done via the web interface.

Some seem to require intervention on host files ( ie: receiver.yml ?).

We should put more configuration into ansible, see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3424

Issues

Known issues about the Discourse service can be found here: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?component=SysAdmin%2FAnsible&status=!closed

Mailing list migration

Some of mailman mailing lists have been migrated to Discourse.

Details on how to ask for migration of your list are here https://discourse.osgeo.org/docs?topic=6765

Theming

We tweak the login form CSS a little in order to fix the LDAP button background, the labels, and to tweak the display order of the options.

This is done from https://discourse.osgeo.org/admin/customize/themes/1/common/scss/edit

.btn.ldap {
    background-color: #fff;
    order: 1;
}

.btn.ldap:hover {
    background-color: var( --primary-medium );
}

.btn.ldap span.btn-social-title {
    visibility: hidden;
}

.btn.ldap span.btn-social-title:before {
    visibility: visible;
    content: 'Log in with OSGeo UserID (LDAP)';
}

.btn.oidc {
    order: 2;
}

.btn.oidc span.btn-social-title {
    visibility: hidden;
}

.btn.oidc span.btn-social-title:before {
    visibility: visible;
    content: 'Log in with OSGeo Gitea';
}

.btn.passkey-login-button {
    order: 3;
}

.btn.github {
    order: 4;
}