On 2/9/2012 10:03 AM, Mark Humphreys wrote:
What software platform allows you to have hybrid forums / mailing
lists (digests!), anyways? That would be the best of both worlds,
right there!
.\\ark
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There are no good forum+list solutions - the methods of communication
are distinctly different, and every solution I've seen favors one over
the other, to the detriment of both. To a certain extent, it's like the
difference between talking to a group of people in person, and writing
letters to them. Different styles of speech, with different assumptions
on etiquette, length of post, etc.
Honestly, I'd say that at best, we have a web DISPLAY of the mailing
lists (which, is really what the digests work out to be), but no posting
to any such web interface.
The caveats about making it easy (and nice) for newbies to post to
certain forums applies.
Nuke the illumos.org forums. A well-monitored Wiki is excellent for the
Distros, but even there, I'd suspect we'd be better off providing
well-monitored email lists than trying to do forums.
There's simply too many of us old fogies who do best on mailing lists,
and don't do forums at all, for forums to thrive. Hell, I'm one of the
minority here that doesn't even do well with IRC, and I can tell you, I
miss a bunch of stuff not being there. The forums are doomed to a
red-headed-step-child status from the start, given our original
subscriber base. And, that's not a bad thing - we just need to be clear
about where the information is, and make it easy for newbies to go to
the right place.
I'm thinking a "Community FAQ" is a real good idea - one that covers the
"socialization" of the Illumos community: where we all hang out, where
to find certain types of info, which areas are appropriate for what kind
of discussions, expected etiquette, etc.
-Erik
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