[OSGeo] #3145: Allow up to 3 levels of subcategories

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#3145: Allow up to 3 levels of subcategories
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Reporter: robe | Owner: sac-tickets@…
     Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Sysadmin Contract 2024-I
Component: SysAdmin/Discourse | Keywords:
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Discourse by default allows at most 2 levels of subcategorization.
This reasoning is mostly in there because it was deemed "It's good for
you", to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot having
needlessly nested hierarchies.

But I think we SHOULD shoot ourselves in the foot, at least a little-bit.

So I am proposing we up this to 3 categories.

That way we can have maybe a Projects -> project_name -> project_name -
developers group :slight_smile: (or not, keep projects not as base category).

But anyway this feature was suggested in #3144

and in reviewing:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-sub-
subcategories/13821/17

It seems possible to do with SiteSetting.max_category_nesting = 3
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#3145: Allow up to 3 levels of subcategories
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Reporter: robe | Owner: sac-tickets@…
     Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Sysadmin Contract 2024-I
Component: SysAdmin/Discourse | Resolution:
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Comment (by robe):

I did in staging -- https://discourse.staging.osgeo.org

Organizing Committees - OSGeo Discourse

And on the hope page the 3 level category looks like this

[[Image(3-level-cateogy.png)]]
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#3145: Allow up to 3 levels of subcategories
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Reporter: robe | Owner: sac-tickets@…
     Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Sysadmin Contract 2024-I
Component: SysAdmin/Discourse | Resolution:
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Changes (by robe):

* Attachment "3-level-cateogy.png" added.

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#3145: Allow up to 3 levels of subcategories
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Reporter: robe | Owner: sac-tickets@…
     Type: task | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: Sysadmin Contract 2024-I
Component: SysAdmin/Discourse | Resolution: fixed
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Changes (by robe):

* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed

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#3145: Allow up to 3 levels of subcategories
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Reporter: robe | Owner: sac-tickets@…
     Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Sysadmin Contract 2024-I
Component: SysAdmin/Discourse | Resolution:
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Comment (by robe):

Now done in prod as well so we can have 3 levels of categories

Had to enter the container and set the setting as detailed below

{{{
cd /var/discourse/

./launcher enter import

rails c

SiteSetting.max_category_nesting = 3
quit
}}}

There doesn't seem to be a place in the UI to do this or at least I
couldn't find it.
Guess cause they want to discourage it and it's probably still
experimental.

I also didn't add this to import.yml or app.yml cause I couldn't see
anything like a SiteSetting, so I assume these settings are only in the
database which is why the change took affect immediately without
restarting the app.
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Ticket URL: <#3145 (Allow up to 3 levels of subcategories) – OSGeo;
OSGeo <Gter - OSGeo;
OSGeo committee and general foundation issue tracker.