On 2/11/07, Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder if a "Google Group" is as good as a Forum?
My feels are they are better. I much prefer digging around in a google group (or old Usenet group) than the MSDN forums. However, what the forums have going for them is: - Visibility. If you develop on MS technologies you know about the forums and are directed there at every possible avenue when asking a question - MS presence. Its the only place besides blogs where us lowly developers get a chance to talk to MS dev's or PM's and have them answer questions - Well used. This is very true during the development stages of the new Vista technologies. I came on stage last summer and there was already a wealth of info. In some cases people just posted solutions to "gotcha's" since they knew people searched the forums. I also knew that if I posted a question, there was a good chance of getting an answer. - Ability to easily search. I mentioned this above, but its easy to go to a forum, search for an answer. This can be done with Mono's current system... but not so well. Someone new on the list today can't easily benefit from a discussion that took place last week. I think moving from Usenet groups to google.groups would be a giant plus. People that still want to get individual emails can set it up to do so. Others can choose to just browse online. Have a visible link on the Monologue. If we go that route, the devs and the community has to push it hard. Mention it to people in IRC when they have a question, post it front page on the mono-project site. Get community members to blog about it. And *drop the current mailing lists*. If we try to run both of them, it will fragment the knowledge.
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