Am 09.02.2012 17:39, schrieb Garrett D'Amore: > > On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Mark Humphreys wrote: > >> Agreed. However, forums are useful for end-users of distributions. >> Please consider implementing these for the OpenIndiana and illumian >> distributions. I'd agree that forum is for starters a very helpful thing - and with a decent search also very helpful for beginner questions. One of the things that I'd say Ubuntu for example did very well, was to give a low-barrier possibility to enter the community. > Forums are only useful if someone is monitoring them. My biggest grip > with them is that the regular contributors tend not to monitor forums, > but instead watch email lists. So the forums wind up getting > abandoned, or getting partial attention. This is a certain problem. - So for illumos I'd say: Nuke 'em, for Distributions... well we should consider. If illumos distros give the image being not professional but elitist, we may fail gathering new people. > > Better to post list archives somewhere and point new users to the lists. What is then required is a very good search function, I'd not consider this is one of Mailmans' strenghts ;-) > Companies that have successful web forums keep someone on staff full > time who's job it is to monitor the forums. We don't have money to > pay anyone to do that. So yes, this is very much true - the question is - do we have people who would want to watch forums or not?
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