> On Sep 14, 2016, at 09:28, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 09/14/2016 03:17 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: >> NetBeans.org <http://netbeans.org/> has forums that mirror the mailing lists >> (well, not always, >> sometimes we've had syncing problems). My feeling is that since Apache >> doesn't support forums, we could simply drop them. No need to convert the >> forums to mailing lists, instead our mailing lists will need to be moved if >> possible to Apache's mailing lists, while the forums can simply be dropped. >> That would be my proposal for this, though some NetBeans community members >> may differ and indeed it will be good to explicitly list this so that we >> can track it when moving forward into incubation. > > While not a forum in the traditional sense, lists.apache.org > <http://lists.apache.org/> does offer > interacting with lists without having to use a separate mail client. You > just log in via oauth and then read/write stuff :) >
Wow…all these years using the Apache lists in some way or another I never knew about that. That is pretty cool, and I do think it could replace forums. Certainly users have to get used to anything new. I think the Apache OAuth button, and the Mozilla Persona buttons, should perhaps be slightly different. The button itself could read “Apache Commiters Login” with a sub-link bottom right justified “using Apache OAuth” and “Apache Users Login” and a sub-link bottom right justified “using Mozilla Persona”; just to make it more intuitive, but certainly works, and is awesome! I had never used Persona, but it was easy to setup and get going. Wade
