Forums needs moderation and enough people willing to check regularly and post ex like storage forums at hardforum. If that not true it is better to have no forum instead a quite dead one.
But i like forums mostly due to the fact, that i can write long posts and others are able to answer with some time delay. I can also check for former posts to eventually find solutions. Another point is, i am German. Its easier for me to write than 'speak' in IRC Mailing lists can do that. But the audience is often very limited. Thats ok in case of a developer list about the OS base but a problem in case of problems with a distribution or additional apps, where problems needs to be discussed in a broader audience. So Illumos forums for Illumos is not needed but it is needed for OpenIndiana or Illumian which refers to illumos.org for discussing like it is done with Nexenta and other distributions, otherwise all discussion must be done at hardforum and others with the limitation that persons get in contact with a distribution the first time must have the impression that ZFS is dead and not worth to deal with. My hope a MODERATED wiki about all ZFS distributions, worth to read - not the mostly confusing one at openindiana.org that really needs moderation a MODERATED forum about all ZFS distributions (including Solaris and NexentaStor CE), like a small opensolaris.org successor; moderation means, deleting spam, structuring things, forward important questions to developers etc, answering questions like Linda at nexenta forums. Mailing lists for developers When you think about Illumian, Nexenta*, OpenIndiana, Solaris and others like Belenix, Eon or Schillix, where would one search common infos? My impression: only at the common base - Illumos; elsewhere there is too much competition between the distributions to really like postings about others. Gea Am 12.02.2012 um 01:30 schrieb Erik Trimble: > 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 >> illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > 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 > > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- ------------------------------------------- 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
