I have no problem with OpenMoko creating a forum for end users. As a developer, I won't be going there regularly. I might drop in now and again to see what the signal to noise ratio is.
Why? Simply because the only time of the day where I can spare 60 minutes to catch up on project communications is on the bus to and from work. With mailing lists, I can download *all* my mail and read (and respond) to it offline on the bus. I read (well, mostly delete) over 1000 messages per day from at least 10 different development mailing lists via this method. I have not yet found a forum that allows you to have all new messages emailed to you, or to have *all* past messages since *exactly* the last message you saw provided to you by an RSS feed (all the feeds I've seen will give you the last N messages, or the last day's worth of messages, so if I go away for three days it is not possible to see all the messages I missed). So when an official forum is blessed by someone, please make sure it is a forum that has a *bidirectional* email gateway. Anything else is simply sub-standard for my usage patterns. Note that nowhere in this message have I said that people should not have a forum - I have my own personal opinions on that, but it's really up to the OpenMoko core team to determine what the communication pathways are for this project (that's why they are the core team - to make decision like this where there is no clear and obvious technical argument in one direction or the other). -- Rod Whitby -- MokoMakefile author _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
