These are valid points. I do, however, agree with a previous poster that the SF archive page for this list is mostly unusable. Fixing that would help a great deal (if for no other reason that to help keep re-posts of old, answered questions from cropping up all the time).
cheers, Blake BLAKE IRVIN Systems Administrator ir...@vivisimo.com Vivisimo [Search Done Right™] 1710 Murray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA tel: +1.412.422.2499 x153 fax: +1.412.422.2495 vivisimo.com clusty.com "to understand systems, you must understand their pathologies -- systems are most instructive when they fail." - Bryan Cantrill, 18 July, 2008 On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Sven-Hendrik Haase schrieb: >> Adding official forums would greatly benefit the Bacula project, I >> think. > > That would require someone who'd act as a moderator for the forums, > and > knowledgeable people to frequent it and answer questions. Unlike > mailing > lists, forums stay usable only as long as someone is animating and > moderating them. > >> Mailing lists are okay, but they do not provide some of the options >> and >> benefits of forums. Forums would also provide easier support access >> to >> younger folks (such as myself :P). > > I don't see how a forum would be any easier than E-mail. In my > experience, > it's the other way round. Whenever I have to use a forum for support > it > tends to be much more time consuming than simple E-mail. > >> Other advantages I see compared to using mailing lists only: >> 1) Improved overview since it is visually more pleasing and more >> sub-categories can be used. >> 2) It's easier to track complex topics. > > I can't confirm either of these two statements from the forums I have > encountered so far. But perhaps I am just too old. ;-) > >> I'm not suggesting the removal of mailing lists in favor of forums, >> I'm >> merely suggesting the forums should be added to the main site, >> mainly in >> order to get support. > > That would exacerbate the manpower problem. How many mailing list > participants will find the time to frequent a forum in addition? And > if > none of the mailing list participants frequent the forum, who will > provide > support there? I see the danger of fragmenting the Bacula user > community > into "old hands" on the mailing list and "younger folks" on the > forums. > Crosslinking the two isn't a viable solution either, as demonstrated > by > the Opensuse mailing lists whose usability has suffered seriously > after > the merge with the previously separate Opensuse forums. > > Jm2c > T. > > -- > Tilman Schmidt > Phoenix Software GmbH > Bonn, Germany > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, > Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to > help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/_______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
