Hi, Am 11.09.2011 um 12:19 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński: > 2011/5/26 Trygve Laugstøl <[email protected]>: >> Another option is Shapado [1] which is more or less a stackexchange[2] copy. >> It's a bit different than traditional forums, but has a very nice >> "community" thing to it. > > Yes, it looks like a questions and answers kind of thing. As far as > asking Solaris related questions, the solaris tag at serverfault.com > seems do the job already: > > http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/solaris > > Maybe we can take a step back and ask - why do we need a forum? What > space do we want the forum to fill? > > My general thought is that mailing lists are generally not very good > at building user communities. For developers, they're great, for but > for users, not so much. Announcement mailing lists, yes. But for > general interest and involvement, forums seem to be more effective. > The idea would be to lower the entry barrier. Of course, the same > thing could constitute a different entry barrier for different people. > One person will see a forum and say: "Cool, this is the kind of forum > I know how to use, so let me join it", while another person will say: > "What? I need to set up yet another account? No way." > > I would like there to be something that people are already familiar > with. Also, if anyone is willing to put the time in it and set up a > forum, I'll be happy with whatever choice they make. > > Some additional considerations could be spam prevention (captchas, > etc) and general maintainability, something that phpbb does not excel > at.
What I would like to have is a connection of the forum to the package page so if you browse a package you automaically see he most recent posts or post topics or so. Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
