> > 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. >
Oh yeah, sorry, that makes more sense haha. On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 9:15:53 AM UTC-4, Mauro wrote: > > >> 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? > >> >>>> > >> >>> > >> > >> > >
