Hi Rick, The forum vs mailing list issue has been done to death many times. Some people swear by forums, some detest them, some people swear by mailing lists, some others detest, others don't care.
Having mailing lists *and* forums just splits the community and critically those delving out support. There is absolutely no way on earth I can afford my time to be stretched out any further, and my guess others are in a similar boat. For this reason you won't be finding me or many others on the forums or IRC channels, and without the driving forces being the OSG being one these channels of support they won't of little use. Since splitting damages the communities ability to provide support and to generally function, then one really has to keep community in one place, this should either be a mailing list OR a forum OR and this would be my ideal a system where users can choose to doing either use mailing list or a forum. Provision of such as system is not a trivial matter, and something than members of the community will have to step up to help provide as I don't have the expertise or the resources to provide it myself. Robert. On 8/27/07, Ricko 3D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. Seems funny to say anything is here to stay > related to any constantly evolving technology project, or anything related > to the Internet. I was just offering my observations coming at this project > fresh. My opinion was simply that the mailing list method seems outdated. I > wasn't suggesting it is not effective, just comparing it to the > features/benefits of newer community technologies I've used on other > projects. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
