Hello Mailing List, I am all just about forum. Since I think forum is more clear, and better organized (in my view/opinion). I do not like mailing lists. I hate them. But...
I admit complete defeat! "If you can not defeat/beat them, you join them!" ;-) Zoran On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:18 AM, WordPress <[email protected]> wrote: > A new post titled "Results of the coreboot "Mailing List vs Blog" poll" > has been published on the coreboot blog. Find the full post at > http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2017/03/04/results-of- > the-coreboot-mailing-list-vs-blog-poll/ > > A little while back, there were a few requests to switch from the mailing > list format to a web-based forum for our official communication channel. > The coreboot leadership wanted to see what the actual preferences of the > coreboot community was, so I posted a poll. The poll was publicized in IRC > and on the mailing list itself, so should have been communicated to the > people who would be most directly affected by any change. > Poll results > > *Here are the overall results from all responses:* > [image: Hate Mailing List:1, Prefer Forum: 6, Don't care: 2, Prefer > Mailing list: 21, Hate Forum: 26] > <https://i2.wp.com/blogs.coreboot.org/files/2017/03/All_results.png> > All_responses > > We had a total of 60 valid responses, and I think the overall results > pretty clearly indicate that the coreboot project should NOT move away from > the mailing list. > > One suggestion was to split the communication into the mailing list for > Developers, and a forum for non-developers. To see what the various groups > thought, I made a few more charts: > > *Developer preferences:* > [image: Prefer Forum: 1, Prefer Mailing list: 16, Hate Forum: 15, Other: 3] > <https://i2.wp.com/blogs.coreboot.org/files/2017/03/Developer_results.png>Developer > Responses > > So not unexpectedly, the coreboot developers even more overwhelmingly > prefer the mailing list to the general results > > *Non-developer preferences:* > [image: Hate Mailing list: 1, Prefer Forum: 5, Don't care: 2, Prefer > Mailing list: 5, Hate Forum: 11, Other: 1] > <https://i1.wp.com/blogs.coreboot.org/files/2017/03/Non-developer_results.png>Non-developer > Responses > > So even within the non-developer group, there was a definite preference > for the mailing list format. > > Finally, I broke the Non-developer group down into the group that said > they were coreboot users, as opposed to those that mainly read the mailing > list. > > *coreboot users (non-developers):* > > > [image: Hate Mailing list: 1, Prefer Forum: 4, Prefer Mailing list: 4, > Hate Forum: 5] > <https://i2.wp.com/blogs.coreboot.org/files/2017/03/User_Non-Developer_results.png>coreboot > Users (Non-Developers) > > That group had the highest percentage of people who preferred the forum, > but it was still well under 40%. > Suggestions > > We also asked people what we should do to improve the mailing list. > Here’s a summary of the suggestions: > > - Show people how to set up their (or a different) email client to > make reading the mailing list easier. > - Have people be more polite. > - Add a FAQ showing previously asked question and answers. > - A netiquette should be established like on the Linux kernel mailing > list. > - Several suggestions to improve the coreboot mailing list archive at > https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/ > <https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/> > - Fix the archive so that long threads aren’t spread into different > sections by months. > - Add a search function to the archive > - Create monthly archives that can be downloaded (This exists.) > - Update from Pipermail to a more modern archiver like Hyperkitty – > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/HyperKitty > <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/HyperKitty> > > Since it doesn’t look like we’re going to switch to a forum, I’m not going > to list the suggestions that people had for that. > Follow-up > > Over the upcoming weeks, we’ll look at our options, and discuss our > options and plans in the bi-weekly coreboot community meetings. > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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