We’ve added a new Contributors category to the GhostBSD forums! This is the space where anyone interested in helping grow and improve GhostBSD can come together to collaborate and share ideas. Whether you're into coding, writing, testing, or just lending a hand, there’s a place for you here.

What's Inside?

The Contributors category is divided into smaller subcategories to keep things organized and make it easy to jump into the areas that interest you most. Here’s a quick look at what’s available:

  • Moderators: For Admins and Mods to manage the forum and community.
  • Documentation: Help write or improve GhostBSD guides and manuals.
  • Release: Share ideas or tasks related to releasing new versions of GhostBSD.
  • Translation: Help make GhostBSD available in different languages.
  • Ports & Packages: Work on or discuss adding and updating software for GhostBSD.
  • Tools Development: Contribute to tools like Update Station and others.
  • Website: Help maintain and improve the GhostBSD website.
  • Infrastructure: A space for technical discussions about servers, hosting, and backend systems (limited to certain groups).
  • Security: Share thoughts and insights about improving GhostBSD's security.

Who Can Participate?

  • Non-forum members can see posts and polls in the main Contributors category.
  • Forum members can dive into subcategory discussions.
  • Some areas, like Moderators and Infrastructure, are restricted to specific groups for privacy reasons.

Why Use the Forum?

This new category will be the primary platform for contributors to collaborate and communicate. While the Dev Telegram group is still great for quick chats, the forum is easier to organize and track important discussions—especially since it matches the formatting style of our Doc Hub, which we can easily reuse in our documentation.

A Few Quick Notes:

  • This isn’t the place for reporting issues! Please use our GitHub issues tracker for that: GitHub Issues.
  • If you’re not an official contributor, your posts will need approval for now. If everything runs smoothly, we’ll loosen this restriction.

We’re starting small, but we may add more subcategories over time. If you have suggestions for areas we’ve missed, feel free to let us know!

Let’s make this the heart of GhostBSD collaboration. I am excited to see what we can build together!

    ericbsd stickied the discussion .
    4 months later

    ericbsd … Let’s make this the heart of GhostBSD collaboration …

    First impression: honestly, prevention is not collaborative.

        grahamperrin It is set like that not to get spam from unrelated discussions.

          ericbsd … could probably be opened for a trial.

          I do like the idea, however it's not me who has to deal with the possible consequences of opening the gate/floodgate :-)

          I did see this:

          … If you’re not an official contributor, your posts will need approval …

          – however the "can't start" first impression leaves a person wondering how to make a post that might be approved.

          Apologies for yesterday's grumpiness.

              grahamperrin Apologies for yesterday's grumpiness.

              No worries. I have been grumpy for a couple of days. I should have avoided the GhostBSD Dev Telegram. I might have made some mistakes.

                  grahamperrin Weird, the member of the forum should be able to start a discussion.

                    I also can't start discussion in this category

                      @ericbsd NLI (not logged in) views may help to tell what's blocked. In a private browsing window.

                      https://forums.ghostbsd.org/t/contributors, for example:

                      • makes all sub-categories invisible
                      • does invite the NLI reader to Start a Discussion
                      • does require authentication if the invitation is accepted

                      The banner does state:

                      Contributors subtags discussion holder. Only use this to create polls. You need to be a forum member to see all categories posts.

                      So … without me knowing Flarum admin, a guess. Does a restriction at the /t/contributors 'level' affect sub-levels?

                        grahamperrin It is set for forum members only. Oh, I think it is a Flarum bug.

                          It is the same with Announcements.

                          20 days later

                          The Contributors Category itself is only a placeholder.

                          Can the Forum member access the Website, Documentation, and other categories under Contributors?