On 10 December 2015 at 12:12, Hardy Ferentschik <ha...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 09:58:01PM +0000, Sanne Grinovero wrote: >> This seems a nice precedent: >> - >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-collections-users/m8FnCcmtC88 > > Right, this is pretty much what I had in mind as well. Whether one would > create > a dedicated mailing list like hibernate-discussions can be discussed, but > otherwise > I would sign under the approach taken for google-collections-users. As > mentioned > in the post, the best place with the biggest community for questions of the > "How do I" > type is Stackoverflow. > > So basically I would suggest: > > - Put the forum into a read only mode > - Add a banner explaining the move to Stackoverflow (similar in content to > what's in the post > mentioned above) > - Create a Hibernate Team on Stackoverflow > - Make sure all Hibernate related tags and wiki pages are up to date > - Add a "Where-to-post summary" to hibernate.org > - Create a hibernate-discussions mailing list!? > > I think we would gain a lot of by this approach.
Looks like a solid plan so I captured in https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/WEBSITE-416 (even though clearly we need some kind of agreement from more people on such a significant change) It saddens me to see the forum go though. Shouldn't the forum be the place for such discusssions, rather than a new mailing list? Might be just an excuse to keep it alive, but also it would allow to not put it fully in read-only mode and have a chance to suggest - for certain kinds of questions - to move to SO. Also, there are many kinds of questions on the forums which I don't see fit in neither SO nor on a mailing list. Sometimes people are not sure if there's a bug, but will want to show some piece of code and see if somebody can help them with that. That's typically not a good question to ask on SO, and when it comes to "post your entities" a mailing list is really lacking in terms of code formatting. Sanne _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev