I'm not sure that discussion forums are the best alternative to the typical "foo-users" mailing list. Topics are generally less about discussion and more about getting a quick answer to a problem; IRC is okay for this at the moment, but once Rust stabilizes I'd much prefer just using StackOverflow to host these sorts of questions.
(For the moment, however, asking questions on SO just makes more work for us once the language actually does stabilize, since we'll need to go through and make sure all the answers are still relevant.) It's also not like this is an exclusive choice. We could have a rust-users list as well as a discussion forum. It's just that we'd need to figure out what to actually use the forum for that other outlets don't already do well (e.g. reddit.com/r/rust is a pretty good link aggregator). On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:21 AM, David Piepgrass <qwertie...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey, why not set up a Discourse forum? That would be so. much. better. > than a mailing list. As an OSS dev I've been itching to get one myself, but > don't have time or much money to set it up. For Mozilla, though? No problem > I'm sure. > > http://www.discourse.org/ > Google: discourse hosting. > http://www.google.com/search?q=discourse+hosting > > > From: Eric Reed <ecr...@cs.washington.edu> >> ... >> I'm not aware of any plans for a rust-users forum. Maybe spinning a >> rust-users mailing list off from rust-dev would make sense? We already did >> a similar thing with our IRC channels. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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