>> 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.
I think you may have misunderstood my comment: I suggested that one of the larger Julia projects, e.g. Julia-Stats, Juno, or Gadfly, would try this out and report back. But yes, the JuliaUsers would have to be part of JuliaLang. > 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? >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>
