Scenario
I’m collecting content that falls into several categories:
- Research that’'s horizontally useful to other people for reference and to inform project decisions
- Project-specific content which will elicit feedback from stakeholders. They are broadly distributed and participate asynchronously.
Must have
- Access controls
- Platform agnostic
- bidirectional Interop with other apps so we can process the underlying content.
Did not choose
- Sphinx is great for publishing but less flexible for collaboration because everyone has to use git.
- Google docs are weak in comment thread management
Chose
- Discourse meets the must haves easily and will serve as a collaboration until we get closer to publication
Limits
- We will need to revisit this decision when we’re ready to deliver because Discourse does not handle billing or usage metering AFAIK.