> From: "Curtis Olson" > > Now that I am hosting the FlightGear web site with a commercial hosting > service, it becomes quite easy to setup online "forums" using phpBB2. > > I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. I'm sure the > FlightGear community will be decisively split between forums versus mailing > lists if I ask people's preferences ... so I'm not expecting a consensus > here. Is this anything that is worth exploring? Is it worth having both > options available? Would end user support benefit from forums? Would forums > be useful for those that have trouble with sourceforge's spam blockers? A > backup communication mechanism for when the sourceforge email lists > experience their inevitable down time? > > Thoughts? > > Curt.
Ummm...this email makes it sound like we are doing forums just because we can. I think it's already been said, why this isn't such a great idea. My vote would be to just ditch the three development categories. To be honest, I'd sort of expect to see the forum format with third party groups and not the core project. Keeping track of all these channels of dialog is just something I won't be able to do. That said... I do have a fairly complete archive of mail in unix format going back 5 or 6 years (only for the -devel, -model, and -cvs lists). This data could be used to build an archive on flightgear.org. Is this idea of interest to anyone? Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
