> > Maybe it would be best if this was > tried out with a large Julia project to see the ins and outs? > Volunteers?
I imagine that the only way that a tentative switch to a "JuliaUsers" repo on Github would gain any significant traction is if the repo was under the JuliaLang org. On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 5:15:12 AM UTC-4, Mauro wrote: > > >> Do any of these other suggestions have a mailing list interface? > > > > GitHub's issue tracking interface does. > > In my email client the threading doesn't seem to work well with github > issue-emails, so I end up using the web interface most of the time. > Otherwise it might work well. I had a quick look around on the > internet, not many projects seem to use issues as mailing list. I only > found these: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-houdini/2015Sep/0004.html > https://github.com/hapijs/discuss/issues > > @-notifications could be quite nice. Maybe it would be best if this was > tried out with a large Julia project to see the ins and outs? > Volunteers? > > > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 3:59:51 PM UTC-4, Robert DJ wrote: > >> > >> I'm not a fan of Google, so I think it would great to find another > forum. > >> Besides, I fully agree with the technical issues mentioned. > >> > >> Regarding the need for user accounts on e.g. GitHub, I don't see how > that > >> is different from requiring a Google account for participating here... > >> > >> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 5:33:33 PM UTC+2, Jarrett Revels > wrote: > >>> > >>> I often find myself wishing that this forum was just a GitHub repo, > with > >>> posts as issues. It would be great for supporting @-style mentions, > >>> markdown, issue-linking, etc. The main downside would be forcing > everybody > >>> to have GitHub account (not bad IMO, but I can see others having an > issue > >>> for it). > >>> > >>> It would probably be a bad idea to upheave the forums, anyway, > especially > >>> at such a critical moment in Julia's development (v0.4 getting > released > >>> soon). I doubt this is going to happen. > >>> > >>> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7:34:58 AM UTC-4, Nils Gudat wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Was just thinking about this as first I had to try opening a thread > here > >>>> a couple of times before any posts were actually displayed, and then > read > >>>> through this > >>>> < > http://discuss.junolab.org/t/how-to-let-julia-be-the-boss-of-juno-windows-windows-issue/320> > > > >>>> thread on Mike's Juno Discuss forum, where a user had a question > which was > >>>> almost answered by the nice auto-suggestion feature that pops up when > you > >>>> ask a question. > >>>> > >>>> I feel that Google Groups has mostly downsides - the system is slow, > >>>> with posts frequently not loading, double posts because of this, no > proper > >>>> code formatting or Markdown support etc. > >>>> > >>>> Is there a chance this could be moved to something like Discuss or is > >>>> there too much inertia in having an "established" forum on Google > Groups? > >>>> > >>> > >
