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Module Name	Module Owner	Module Peers
Discourse	yalam96	Tanner

Mozilla Community Discourse

Discourse is a communication platform "for the next 10 years". It features a clean web interface, mailing list features and much more. Community Ops is trialling Discourse as an alternative discussion forum

Current Sites

• Main Discourse.
• Mozilla Guides
• Advocacy Forum
• Mozilla festival 2015

Requesting a category

To request a category, please fill out this form.

Requesting an instance

If you're sure your community needs their own instance of discourse, you can file a bug in Infrastructure & Operations :: Community IT: Discourse.

Discourse Team

What does the team do?

• Advocacy
• Set policy for, and review:
  • category requests
  • reported posts
  • requests like name changes
  • Other misc. moderation tasks
• Track feature requests
  • Surface their recommendations to IT/Ops to implement
• Development
  • Implements features requested

Members

Leo	Development
Kensie	Project manager
Nukeador	Advocacy
Emma Irwin	Policy
Robby	Advocacy/Moderation

Contribution

• Contribute to our site theme
• Become a part of our Discourse Team

Plugin overview

These are custom plugins that run on the Community Discourse instance which provide some key features requested by the community.

Persona Login & Mozillians.org

Persona login for Discourse (with some Mozillians magic sprinkled on top)

Mentor: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/Mozilla-cIT/discourse-persona-mozillians

Languages: Ruby (on Rails), JavaScript

Good first bugs: https://github.com/Mozilla-cIT/discourse-persona-mozillians/labels/good%20first%20bug

Description: The Persona login plugin allows a user to log in to Discourse with Mozilla Persona and pulls information about them from Mozillians.org into Discourse.

Bugzilla

Discourse plugin to make it play nice with Bugzilla

Mentor: Leo McArdle

Code: https://github.com/Mozilla-cIT/discourse-bugzilla

Languages: Ruby (on Rails), JavaScript

Good first bugs: https://github.com/Mozilla-cIT/discourse-bugzilla/labels/good%20first%20bug

Description: The Bugzilla plugin adds various features to Discourse enhancing how it works with Bugzilla by default.

Monitoring

See https://health.mozilla-community.org/

Documentation

Read more on Discourse Documentation

Setup

Learn how you can setup an instance of Discourse on your own