On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Narayan Aras <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > Any idea why we are using a mail list in place of a BB forum? > 1. Very difficult to search (in fact there is no built-in search. Google > search is also not as good as internal forum search). > 2. No sticky posts possible to guide newcomers. > 3. Not possible to segregate into sections > 4. Not possible to use markup to add emphasis or hyperlinks > 5. Not possible to search for a particular user's posts >
Narayanaras, As a part of the LibreOffice Drupal website scope that was developed about a month ago we are tackling this issue head on. The Drupal website team believes we can keep all parties happy by using Drupal forums, which brings with it all of the benefits you have mentioned as well as supporting rich text, while allowing legacy support for mailing lists which will keep the people who are still on dialup or mobile users happy. The Steering Committee has given us ~6 months to implement the system, so sorry about the wait, but we don't want to disrupt the systems that the OOo community has worked off for many years, we want to improve them and the systems around them without losing functionality or members. If you have an interest in this and some past experience with setting up or administering systems like this you are welcome to join the Drupal website team and give us a hand to implement this faster than scheduled. Thanks, Michael Wheatland -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
