Managing product announcements with multiple versions

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I would say yes to tags. I would use categories for the high level content types, not for every product/version combination.

So there might be categories for:

  • Product Announcements
  • Release Notes
  • News

And tags for:

  • product: 1secure, auditor
  • version: 1secure-dpsm, release-minor, etc.

Discourse supports fairly structured tagging with tag groups, parent-child tag relationships, limiting one tag from a group, and category tag restrictions, so you can keep this from turning chaotic.

Then users can watch or watch-first-post tags, and you can set default tag notification levels.

If you have one release topic tagged with both product and new version

  • category: Release Notes
  • tags: 1secure, v10.8

Anyone watching 1secure gets it.
Anyone watching v10.8 also gets it.

Use the product tag only.

Does that help, or have I missed a nuance?

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