The forums were starting to get spammed as well. Keeping the wiki clean will be part of my job. So far I haven't had too much trouble leaving the SmartOS wiki open. As we get more popular that may change, but we'll deal with that when we come to it. Right now I'm trying to eliminate barriers to communication and contribution as much as possible.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mark Humphreys <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Bob Friesenhahn < > [email protected]> wrote: > > <TEXT DELETED> > > >> Google and other search engines suffice where Mailman falls short. >> > > A large chunk of those Google hits were lost when Oracle took the > opensolaris community forums offline - mind you, they do live-on as mailing > lists. Anyone have a subscribe link? > > Regardless, I'm speaking primarily from watching the website and mailing > lists for OpenIndiana; and, comparing that with experience in the Linux and > BSD communities. It's true that wikis, and mailing lists are facilitating > newer methods of communicating. But, when spam bots are submitting most of > the comments on the wiki, which is substituting for a forum, people can > begin to get the impression a project may be stalling. > > Anyways, that's just my 2 cents, and I probably have some change > coming-back. :-P > > Regards, > > .\\ark > *illumos-discuss* | > Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175496-e0a8025a> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan SmartOS Community Manager Joyent cell 720 371 4107 ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
