> 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.
And the latter is of greater added value at this stage, given the size of the
group.
> 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.
Yup, but than who decides what is "escalated" to the dev-list and on what
ground?
> 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?
The problem with the current Koolu forum is the time Harry Mutch is investing
in it to keep it clean. He could be doing more useful things. I'm just not
convinced of the added value of a forum at this stage ( if the mailings are
searchable).
Niels.
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