Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.
Are you here to participate in a specific proposal? Click on the proposal tag (with the dark outline) to see only posts about that proposal and not all of the others that are in progress. Tags are at the bottom of each post.
What should we do with older proposals that have no incubator activity?
We have several proposals that were made a long time ago but haven't had any incubator posts at all. That wasn't a use case we anticipated; we expected that proposals might be slow to build and that's fine, but we didn't expect zero activity. The incubator is an important part of the process, the proof of concept that accompanies the original idea/description.
Perhaps this means there is some problem that needs to be addressed with those proposals' scope that we should be discussing on meta. Or perhaps the proposals don't have active interest, only passive interest.
On the one hand, there are no time limits here; proposals take as long as they take. I have hopes of launches from even some of our oldest proposals. Building a body of posts and a group of people who want to participate takes time. On the other hand, if we have proposals that nobody cares about, maybe we should set them aside. (They could be brought back in the future if there's interest.) And on the third hand (who says we can have only two?), maybe they're not doing any harm if they sit idle.
How to propose a community on the codidact.com network includes this:
What happens if a proposal isn't viable?
We understand that sometimes what seems like a good idea just isn't working for some reason, and we encourage everyone to use meta to discuss issues if that happens. Proposals can be closed by consensus. If that happens, we'll archive the Q&A so that if someone wants to revive the proposal again in the future, nothing is lost.
I'm going to make individual meta posts about some specific proposals and will add those links to this post. (Feel free to start other meta discussions!) If your thoughts are about specific proposals, please respond there; if they're more general, please respond here.
Questions about specific proposals:
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Our incubator system is fundamentally broken. When I have some time, I'll write a meta post about this.
We should do nothing with inactive proposals until we have a better means of starting new sites.
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See this meta discussion about our overall new-site system.
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