-- vadim gavrilov <[email protected]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 03:02 PM +0200):
> Just a general questions, Why isn't there a Peer-to-Peer Technical Support
> forums for the Zend Framework? I mean the mailing list is ok and we get our
> qeustions answered but having some kind of a forum where developers could
> share
> ideas, tips, help each other (without relying on the mailing list) and show
> some application examples (code snippets) will be a very good addition to the
> already large community of developers. With a forum software you could also
> easly search things that were already asked and answered, You could archive
> topics and posts (unlike the current mailing archive) and i think alot more.
>
> I am pretty sure this will just benefit the ZF developer community, The
> questions is why something like this wasn't already made?
We have an IRC channel: #zftalk on Freenode. If you want immediate
connection to other developers and want to share code, that's the best
place to go.
We explicitly made the decision not to do a web-based forum as we wanted
to minimize the number of support channels we needed to monitor. Most of
the internal team are not fond of forums and prefer email as it's easier
to filter and manage; when you're dealing with many thousands of
messages a month, a forum becomes too difficult to monitor.
However, we *have* integrated the mailing lists with Nabble, which gives
many of the benefits of a forum, while still keeping the benefits of a
mailing list. We have Nabble embedded on the archives page:
http://framework.zend.com/archives
and you can search posts there.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | [email protected]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
