Niels Heyvaert wrote:
As a developer trying to keep up with what's up you'll need to read the mailing, check the wiki and bug reports, read patches or commits from others and read the forum. Doesn't sound very effective, if you ask me.
Exactly that is a large part what I dislike with having a forum also, but and this is from my own view just a few years back a mailing list is for many people a lot scarier. So from my view we stand at this:
If we want maximum user base we should have a forum. On the other hand this will draw our very limited resources. I know I could administrate and moderate a forum with a few 100 posts a week myself I have done this before. I could also host it. On the other hand this will reduce the chance that I can put effort into testing and things like that.
The really big risk as I see it is that the "real" developer types here goes and read the forum and spends time there instead of developing. Now I think this can be reduced if we make sure to have a group on the forum making sure that normal questions get answers and any important information gets forwarded to email lists, bugtracker and things like that. Basically it would be android-freerunner-users on forum and devs and such on emaillist.
But I'm not convinced either way really, if there where quite some traffic on the forum before maybe that is a good argument for having one that works good again?
So what do you people think is it worth it? larlin _______________________________________________ android-freerunner mailing list android-freerunner@android.koolu.org http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org
