Hi, > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:16:03 +0100 > From: Carson J Q Farmer <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] forum.qgis.org > To: Anita Graser <[email protected]> > Cc: qgis-developer <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I think we have to be careful here, there are a lot of users out there who > don't use mailing lists as a general rule. Mailing lists tend to be a bit more > of a 'commitment' than forums, and I think we'd be alienating a lot of users if > we drop the forums completely... Is there anyway to set it up so that forum > questions are routed to the mailing list, while still appearing to be within > the forums for those that prefer this? A new forum structure would probably be > fine/nice, but mailing lists tend to be quite 'developer-centric'... I prefer > mailing lists myself... But many of my students are 'afraid' or weary of > them... > > On the other hand, the mailing list format works well for the R project... > > Just some thoughts to throw around before we completely abandon the forums... > And possibly some users... > > Carson
Rather than routing forum posts to the existing mailing list, how about sending them to a new read-only mailing list? Alister _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
