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?
该插件似乎无法与最新版本的 Discourse 一起使用。这是我收到的错误消息:
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".
另外,我从未在我上面的帖子中找到解决方案。其他人还在使用此插件吗?
我之前因为一些问题将其卸载了,但希望在它恢复功能后重新安装!
不,它确实在 2.8 版本上损坏了。
我正在进行重建以更新到最新版本时看到相同的警告。但我没有安装此插件。我该如何追踪此错误的来源?
真可惜。我很想再次看到这个插件运行起来。
我知道这是一项艰巨的技术任务,但如果 Discourse 核心包含某种遗留支持,能够让旧插件继续运行,而不是让开发者付出的所有努力都付诸东流(如果他们无法/不愿意不断更新它们的话),那就太棒了。我甚至不确定这是否可行,因为它可能会失控,但拥有这样的功能将是一件非常棒的事情。
这个分支怎么样?上次更新是 3 年前,但它似乎修复了主版本中尚未修复的一个错误。
这个插件看起来很棒!