Create djangoproject.com URL for Discord / async chat link

[Timothy Schilling]

I think there's benefit in creating a djangoproject.com/discord or djangoproject.com/chat to redirect to ​https://discord.gg/xcRH6mN4fa.

That code is obfuscated and is weird for other communities/people to share. When individuals share links to the Django discord, it's not possible to inspect that it's actually the correct server. I think sharing a djangoproject.com link, even if it redirects, is more trustworthy.

There's also the scenario in which something happens Discord's end and the code were invalidated, we'd have a number of places to change. It might be worth to start that process sooner rather than later.

[Simon Charette]

I do believe the idea has merit but issues/feature requests pertaining to the djangoproject.com website ​are tracked on its respective Github repository; Trac is used for the development of the Django project itself.

[Timothy Schilling]

I created it here since it would impact the documentation and that felt like the biggest hurdle to the change. The issues to retire the django-users and django-devs mailing lists and to swap IRC for discord have tickets which is why I assumed this would require a ticket.

[Simon Charette]

If we opened tickets for these other improvements Trac might be a valid place to discuss this :shrug:

I wasn't aware we used Trac to track such work over forums discussions that link to respective PRs (e.g. against django/djangoproject.com)

[Timothy Schilling]

No, you're right. It looks like it started with a forum topic with tickets for the pieces of work.