Hi,
why does the Apache/Jakarta project still uses maillist?
It's a technology that was used before the invention of WWW.
Everyone get's your eMail address, therefore you get spammed all the time
the and it's very inconvenient to use.
Every student homepage has got it's own forum now, so why not
why does the Apache/Jakarta project still uses maillist?
It's a technology that was used before the invention of WWW.
And boy does it ever work!
I've worked on a number of commercial projects which are managed in a
similar way to accomodate dispersed teams.
It works, we like it, get used
A couple of other reasons to supplement Danny's reply:
-- Because they're easy to use at one level, and they're the lowest common
denominator. Everyone (well, nearly) has an email account, and can read
and respond to mailing lists. We have some contributors who still live
over part-time
Quoting Shane Curcuru [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A couple of other reasons to supplement Danny's reply:
And one or two of my own:
* Mailing lists are a push technology. Forums are more pull. That means I
can get the mailing list updates sent to me without having to do anything.
Forums require me
J Aaron Farr wrote:
Finally, Jakarta did have forums at one time but I don't think they were heavily
used:
http://issues.apache.org/jive/index.jsp
IMO this is the best point. Open source projects get to try dozens of
different communication patterns (IM, IRC, NNTP, personal email, Forums,
