Hi, just to add a bit of my opinion as well.
Just a mailing list is imho not enough. Personally, I like a forum. Even though, due to its nature(?), it might attract more OT discussion. However, such OT discussion can be canalized by proper categorization, e.g., OT sections etc. Canalizing discussions into topics, e.g., hardware, software, OT, general, etc. is imho one nice feature of a forum. But other neat features had been mentioned here already as well. I think Q&A sites like stackoverflow or tjc are also very handy. Why not let the users make the decision? I.e., we have a mailing list and a Q&A site already, just the forum is missing. So, if there were a forum as well, it would show over time how the usage and the user counts of the different infrastructures develops. BR, Ruediger On 05/26/2014 08:45 AM, Denis Zalevskiy wrote: > On Sunday 25 May 2014 18:43:03 Saija Saarenpää wrote: >> I prefer the editing abilities a forum gives over everything else. >> For example QtProject forum http://qt-project.org has done it really well. >> They have the possibility to extend the documentation by leaving notes and >> code examples. Also a whole section to provide snippets. > >> The thing which I dislike in mailing lists that sometimes for solving a >> simple issue I need to read the whole chain of emails to catch the one >> which has the correct and working solution. In the forum it's possible to >> modify the original question to include the correct answer or even save a >> separate code snippet in the wiki, which is easy to find if tagged >> properly. > > You are talking about Q&A sites == TJC, they implement it in a way better > than > forum And the good part is that there is no fixed sections: they are > individual based on tags. And anybody can set own set of tag filters (to > filter > out e.g. ranting). > > - denis > >> - Saija >> >> Ircnet/freenode/matrixx >> @setelani >> >> Lähetetty iPadista >> >> >>> "Christopher Lamb" <christopher.l...@thurweb.ch> kirjoitti 25.5.2014 kello >>> 18.13: > >>> Hi Thomas >>> >>> Thanks for your input. >>> >>> I suspect the whole "mailing-list vs forum" thing will be a matter of >>> taste and experience. Both have their plus sides and downsides. > >>> I am now trying out Thunderbird, but will hold of commenting until I have >>> got used to it. > >>> >>> >>>> On 24.05.14 19:32, "Thomas B. Rücker" wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> * Private Messages >>>> >>>> I'm not sure if you are serious. >>>> Did you hear about this thing called … email? >>>> ... >>> >>> >>> I counter with "have you heard of this thing called privacy?" In some >>> forums your email is suppresed by default. Other users only see your >>> avatar, and thus pms are used for "back-channel" talk instead of email. >>> In a small intimate community like this one, privacy (or invasion >>> thereof) should not be a problem, but that might change if the community >>> were to mushroom in size. > >>> m.f.g >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> B.t.w my Pizza has to be the classic Napoli ... >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >>> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >>> devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > -- http://ruedigergad.com _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org
