Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-05 Thread Patrick Castonguay
Hi guys, Sorry for opening this can of worms... After looking at the different links people have posted I see this has already been pondered over. But I guess there is always value in re-visiting an old idea once a while... Cheers Patrick Castonguay H: 613 435 2235 C: 613 325 1341

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Alberto Luaces
El Martes 04 Noviembre 2008ES 13:08:46 Patrick Castonguay escribió: Hi everybody, I am just new to OSG and currently am just using but would hope to do some development in the future. I was wondering if there has been any thoughts given recently to moving to a forum structure instead of the

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Peter Wraae Marino
Hi Jan, like you said just to forums instead.. every descent forum has thread notifications. So no need to track down forums, you will get an email when someone has answered or posted in your forum thread. Peter On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Jan Ciger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Cedric Pinson
I prefer mailing list too, you just need to configure and make filter to manage mailing in the way you want. for me it's perfect, i can manage and sort it very quickly. Cheers, Cedric Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Hi, Please not forums! On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:18, Jan Ciger wrote:

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Moles
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 15:35 +0100, Cedric Pinson wrote: I prefer mailing list too, you just need to configure and make filter to manage mailing in the way you want. for me it's perfect, i can manage and sort it very quickly. Cheers, Cedric Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Hi, Please not

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Alejandro Aguilar Sierra
Robert: That system already exists. It is the google group http://groups.google.com/group/osg-users . It can work as a mailing list for those who want to get the e-mails, or as a forum for those who don't. Another advantage is that it will not fall when osg servers fail. I guess currently that

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Alejandro, The current googlegroups is just observers our mailman server, but it doesn't allow you to post to the list. Migrating googlegroups wholesale would loose users who don't like giving more control over to google. Robert. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Peter, like you said just to forums instead.. every descent forum has thread notifications. So no need to track down forums, you will get an email when someone has answered or posted in your forum thread. So you prefer getting e-mail *and* going to a forum rather than just getting

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Jefferson Pinheiro
I would prefer a forum too. Even though I use gmail with filters. 2008/11/4 Jean-Sébastien Guay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Peter, like you said just to forums instead.. every descent forum has thread notifications. So no need to track down forums, you will get an email when someone has answered

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Robert Osfield
Guys. Please re-read the previous thread on this discussion. Everything has been said before, everything has be rehashed to death. You are never going to please everyone by going for a forum or by going for mailing list only. The only way to appease everyone is to have a system where users

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Jan Ciger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Wraae Marino wrote: Hi Patrick, I agree 100% mailing lists are old school forums are more structured and makes it easier to find already answered questions also forums won't spam my email box. A lot of projects use mailing lists and

[osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Patrick Castonguay
Hi everybody, I am just new to OSG and currently am just using but would hope to do some development in the future. I was wondering if there has been any thoughts given recently to moving to a forum structure instead of the full mailing list. I believe it would be much better to be able to

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Peter Wraae Marino
Hi Robert, I can see that having both systems at the same time would be nice, but how would you solve the problem about catagory, topics, threads, subjects.. in a mailing list you only have a subject. so if we parsed the mailist and got the forum in sync then all posts would just come in one

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Can T. Oguz
I think receiving everything is good (for rookies like me) 2008/11/4 Alberto Luaces [EMAIL PROTECTED] El Martes 04 Noviembre 2008ES 13:08:46 Patrick Castonguay escribió: Hi everybody, I am just new to OSG and currently am just using but would hope to do some development in the future.

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Peter, I can see that having both systems at the same time would be nice, but how would you solve the problem about catagory, topics, threads, subjects.. in a mailing list you only have a subject. so if we parsed the mailist and got the forum in sync then all posts would just come in one

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Peter Wraae Marino
Hi Patrick, I agree 100% mailing lists are old school forums are more structured and makes it easier to find already answered questions also forums won't spam my email box. A lot of projects use mailing lists and think that they are the only mailing list people use, but the fact is I am on 4

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread David _
i also prefer forums over a mailing lists all the way Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:18:10 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org Subject: Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum? Hi Patrick, I agree 100% mailing lists are old school forums are more structured and makes

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, Please not forums! On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:18, Jan Ciger wrote: Sorry, but I personally cannot imagine having to chase down 4-5 forums every day to check for new messages for projects I am involved in and then another 2-3 related to the office. That would be simply impossible to

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Ulrich Hertlein
Quoting Peter Wraae Marino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: like you said just to forums instead.. every descent forum has thread notifications. So no need to track down forums, you will get an email when someone has answered or posted in your forum thread. Oh great, so not only do you get swamped with

Re: [osg-users] Migrating to a forum?

2008-11-04 Thread Wang Rui
Hi Patrick, There is a Chinese forum with more than a thousand members: bbs.osgchina.org. But it's only for Chinese users. :) There are some other forums on google, but not so popular as the mailing list. Wang Rui 2008/11/4 Patrick Castonguay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everybody, I am just new to