Adding collaborators to a topic?

[maiki]

Thanks for providing more context!

I’m going to pitch another workflow idea, not to discourage this feature request but to assist in defining the scope.

@civitas_john

We expect users to upload “projects”, i.e. posts with special attachments (some sandboxed code that can be run in the browser).

Are the projects expected to be “finished”? Or are they continually edited in public?

@civitas_john

We know some users have already asked for collaboration, i.e. multiple users can edit the same “project” asynchronously. So this is different from Wiki, which everyone (within a group) can edit.

If I were doing this today, I would just encourage users to create a PM for their collaborators and make that a wiki. Then, when the project is ready for showing it is either copied into a public topic, or the PM is made a public topic.

Of course that presumes a lot about how your users produce projects! But I wanted to share that the current collaborative features in Discourse support group topic writing, but there are not currently user-level permissions on public topics to exclude users from collaboration.