(Forgot Cc?) On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Martin Bähr <mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:45:19AM +0800, Zhang Sen wrote: >> > can we turn the issue tracker into a forum? >> Well, this is simply not how a forum works... > > why not? in a forum people browse topics, and write comments, on the > issue tracker people browse issues and write comments. > > where is the difference? > > it only looks different a bit, but that can potentially be masked, at > least for a list of forums/issue categories, and for the input form. > > also part of my argument is that we don't actually need a forum but a > web based interface where people can ask questions and get answers.
IMO FITS is not a place for people (read 'users') to ask questions. It's for developers and 'advanced' users, not for everybody asking general questions, leaving 'Me too!' kinds comments, or showing off cool tips and screenshots. Having users all over issues.fl.org will defeat FITS's role of guiding FL development. On the other hand, issue trackers have a different atmosphere than forums. It feels more serious to open an issue or leave a comment on issue trackers. So it's likely that people won't bother to leave any comment at all. It's just like Mark (or smerp?) said, forum is a 'user-to-user' space. As long as we don't have a real user-base, it's pointless to discuss about how to setup a forum. We might rather shut the forum down and leave a static page saying that 'If you have any problems, go to issues.fl.org and open a report. But remember to have a search first!' It may sound the same but I think it's different than using FITS as a forum. jesse _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
