Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi,
Michael Raskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Today I wrote to LQ root, Jeremy, and asked what would be
needed to register a NixOS subforum in distributions.
Personally, I don't like webish forums. I prefer plain old mailing
The question is what we want. For example, nix-dev archives have no own
search (and not too high a PR in search engines)
lists, which I find much easier to deal with, especially with large
I was subscribed to LKML for some time (I was reporting a bug, so I
searched for it and then subscribed not to miss some messages about
this) Well, I'd say web forum would be easier to use just because of
filtering possibilities it provides.
amounts of messages. There's currently a single mailing list and it's
far from being overcrowded, so would it make sense to try to focus on
The question is if we want to keep it that far from being overcrowded.
using the mailing list?
I'd say that most problems are discussed in IRC anyway.. And #trace
discussion leave no trace (and neither do #nixos discussions). Web
forums will be one more way of communication, it doesn't mean we will
abandon mailing list, but the one wanting to ask a question will have
one more way to go. Also, a subforum on LQ is a good chance to get some
converts from Gentoo and LFS, and I'd say that it would be good for both
testing and adding new packages.
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