This service makes the process of preparing discourse topics for the discussion of FSFE news/podcast items easy. It is meant to be used by the FSFE's PR team members.

Background

On fsfe.org we have the possibility to include a discussion link for news/podcast items which enabled interested people to comment on our articles. This happens via our Discourse instance, and the discussion tag in the XHTML files

Features

To prepare a news item, the PR person requires the URL of the new Discourse topic, so it has to be prepared somehow. This service does exactly that:

See all (unpinned) topics in the special preparation category, only visible to certain people
View and edit any topic in this category
Create a new topic with title and body text
Delete a topic in this category
Publish it as a news item or podcast episode
- Sets the desired target category
- Sets the desired tag
- Updates the timestamp to now

Afterwards, such a topic can no longer be managed by this service, but only directly in Discourse, until it is back in the preparation category.

Usage

Open discourse-news.fsfe.org
Use your personal FSFE account to log in
Add a new topic or manage existing ones

License

This project is Free Software and REUSE compliant.