On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:43:37 -0600, Joshua Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Erik Enge wrote: > >>I can't speak for everyone, obivously, but I don't use forums, sorry. >>That may or may not matter to you but consider it a datapoint in your >>evaluation of whether or not to move to a forum[1]. >> >>Erik. >> >>[1] I'm assuming one of those browser-only forums/discussion-boards. >> >> >One nice thing about a forum is that different project teams can >communicate as verbosely as they want without disturbing others (and >without having to instantiate a new mailing list for each sub-project >team). The comment about Gentoo is a valid data point, as it is fairly >common for user-friendly communities to use forums to communicate. Part >of the attraction is, I think, that "threading" is not a half-baked >feature of the client, but instead an intrinsic structural feature. I >hate all email clients' abilities to successfully thread my mail. > >Whether a forum is best for Gardeners, I don't know -- I think a similar >level of collaboration (in many ways superior) can come from a >well-maintained wiki, which we already have (in budding form, to >continue the gardening analogy). Some things, like the >implementation/library matrix we're discussing would be somewhat >difficult to pull off in a forum, but easy in a wiki, for example. Please No. Web forums, wikis and similar web based crap is only pandering to those who refuse to install a decent mail/news reader. If you prefer a web interface (usually with broken threading), just use one of the existing web archives of the mail list rather than trying to force everyone into *your* preferred way of doing things. JCR _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
