Hello, I'm not on the development team. I just want to share my opinions.
First of all almost all open source projects have a user mailing list. A mailing list is easy to subscribe/unsubscribe etc. > If a user posts a question of a forum, then they only have to see > responses to their question. In a user mailing list, they will get > innundated by the 20-100 other user mailing list emails a day until they > unsubscribe. Yes. This way you can see other people's questions/problems too. Without asking a single question you can learn a lot of things. I'm a very new Hibernate user, I haven't found enough time to dig in and it's been a month or so since I joined the forum. Thus, *I* don't know what people talk about it yet. I *have to* go to the forum to see them. If it was a mailing list all would be in my inbox. > Also, while it's possible to provide web-history of a mailing list, it's > not as web-centric as a forum. Mailing list emails do not contain a > link to the web posting (you have to search and find it on your own), > while obviously the forum posting and the latter notifications link to > the web-thread. I don't think this is an issue for not having a user mailing list. Another reason that mailing lists are better is people who use dial-up connection. You can get all posts in a few minutes and disconnect, later you can use any MUA to read the messages offline. Also Gavin's comments on "complete history" and "properly threaded" messages is somewhat non-sense to me. Most e-mail programs properly thread mailing lists. I don't have any problem with that and I don't think people having difficulties with it. And if you want complete history on a thread don't delete messages very often. If you want to see a thread'a one year old message do a quick search on google. Regards. /tb. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
