On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Ben Kennedy wrote:
> Sean Gabriel Heacock wrote at 11:25 AM (-0600) on 8/29/09: > > >Now that we have forums set up at peruser.org, we're considering > >discontinuing the mailing list. I've set up a poll on the main page > >where you can vote on whether we should keep it or not. > > Since I'm a lurker and not an active participant, my vote is > inconsequential, but I will voice for the record that I loathe web-based > "forums" and so I voted (anonymously) in favour of the mailing list. FWIW, I agree. One inbox is much more efficient than a multitude of web sites (a web forum for every project that I follow would be a nightmare). But if telena is to be relieved of the burden of hosting the project, perhaps it would be possible to host the project on apache.org or at least use a mailing list there for patch submission and review? But if you were to run a list serv, you could archive the list on google groups, gmane, MARC etc. for free and get other advantages of forums. And I think that, for end users, a wiki would serve better than a forum. Much kudos to everyone who has volunteered their time and infrastructure to the cause, but the goal IMHO should be to merge the module upstream, and avoid all that. I wonder whether distributed SCM could be useful for the peruser module or not, and whether or not a branch in the upstream repo could be made available by that project in order to help out this one? Regards, Finn > (The mailing list has allowed me to keep an eye on all discussions > passively. Web-based message boards require active effort on behalf of > the participant to stay informed, which most of the time isn't worth the > effort and overhead, so I always shed a tear for these "kill mailing > list and replace with web" trends that are happening more and more frequently) > > -b > > _______________________________________________ Peruser mailing list [email protected] http://www.telana.com/mailman/listinfo/peruser
