hi Joshua! I haven’t looked at this plugin for a while, but it seems to me you can get what you want just by creating a new group to use for mingling. This group does not need to be used for any other purpose or be publicly visible to members. Add whoever you want to your minglers group from your other groups and allow them to mingle!
It looks like this wasn’t made specifically for that use case but I think I see where you’re going @Joshua_Kogan, i may have had a similar idea in mind.
@tobiaseigen, i think the reason what you mentioned wouldn’t work is because the quote above. (I’m also assuming that @gdpelican may have meant intra-group matches?)
you could get protege + protege mingle matches, but the admin wants to exclusively facilitate mentor + protege mingle matches.
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To take that idea a bit further, I could see the usefulness (selfishly) of also allowing boolean type logic in facilitating targeted matches.
Consider a not-that-hypothetical forum with groups for different majors at a university & groups for the years members graduated in like this:
ChemE-MajorCS-Majorco-2015co-2021
As an admin I might want to pair current students who study Computer Science with alumni who studied Computer Science and do the same for Chemical Engineering majors. In which case I might specify my mingle configuration to target people with mutual/intersecting membership in certain groups as follows:
(ChemE-Major & co-2015) | (ChemE-Major & co-2021)
(CS-Major & co-2015) | (CS-Major & co-2021)
I may have snuck in an extra feature explanation here for allowing you to set up multiple configurations at once, but that would really only make sense if you could target matches to exclusively have members from specific groups.
Curious if anyone sees value in such a feature/extension of this plugin?
Just curious is this plugin broken for anyone else?
I opened a pull request here for some the issues i encountered when running it on my forum
Usually it is the new users with trust level 0 who just join the forum that need to introduce themselves and get to know others. Can I basically just setup a Mingle between users of only trust level 0? Or maybe, it’d be a bit more fun to setup a mingle between a user with trust level 0 and any other user.
I can see some other purposes of this. In gaming forum, auto pairing two people every defined interval could be a random duel or challenge.
From what i understand, the current feature set only allows you to define matches amongst a group or combination of groups but doesn’t offer any guarantee that matches will be between people in different groups.
So you could make all trust level 0 people match together, but you couldn’t guarantee all trust level 0 people match with any other user.
to answer in short:
Yes
lol agree would be more fun, but no, its not currently an option
oh, true, yes. i just added that to the open PR as well, thanks
Has anyone experienced a 502 bad gateway error after installing the plugin?
I validated the YAML file, rebuilt as the instructions mention, and then couldn’t access the site. After reverting the changes to the YAML file and rebuilding again, everything was fine again.
This is what I added to the YAML file, for reference:
hooks:
after_code:
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
cmd:
- sudo -E -u discourse git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
- sudo -E -u discourse git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/mingle.git
I agree. This would be great for pairing experienced users with new members so they’ve got a big bro/sis to help guide them. Although i’m not suggesting that instead of the current format as that is also very cool.
I’m just testing it out anyway. Loving your work 
In the /sidekiq/retries and /sidekiq/morgue, I get this error message:
Jobs::HandledExceptionWrapper: Wrapped ArgumentError: missing keyword: :
There’s not really any information on what keyword its looking for. Anyone have any ideas?
El plugin no parece funcionar con la última versión de Discourse. Aquí está el mensaje de error que recibo:
I, [2022-02-01T17:41:14.025821 #1] INFO -- : cd /var/www/discourse && [ ! -d 'node_modules' ] || su discourse -c 'yarn install --production && yarn cache clean'
warning Resolution field "lodash@4.17.21" is incompatible with requested version "lodash@4.17.15"
warning "> @mixer/parallel-prettier@2.0.1" has unmet peer dependency "prettier@^2.0.0".
Además, nunca encontré una solución a mi publicación anterior. ¿Alguien más sigue usando este plugin?
Lo desinstalé hace tiempo por algunos problemas, ¡pero me gustaría reinstalarlo cuando vuelva a funcionar!
No, realmente está roto en 2.8.
Veo la misma advertencia al realizar una reconstrucción para actualizar a la última versión. Sin embargo, no instalé este complemento. ¿Cómo puedo rastrear de dónde proviene este error?
Qué lástima. Me encantaría ver este plugin funcionando de nuevo.
Sé que es una gran tarea técnica, pero sería increíble si Discourse principal incluyera algún tipo de soporte heredado que mantuviera los plugins antiguos funcionando en lugar de que todo el trabajo que los desarrolladores ponen se descarte si no pueden o no quieren actualizarlos constantemente. Ni siquiera estoy seguro de si es factible, ya que podría salirse de control, pero sería algo muy bueno de tener.
¿Qué hay de este fork? La última actualización es de hace 3 años, pero parece corregir un error que no está corregido en la versión principal.
¡Este plugin parece genial!