Hey Fabien, I'd personally want to have new posts and answers in my inbox ASAP, so I'm not sure if a forum software would do the trick. If it is possible to use a mailing list, I'd prefer that solution. Yes, it's all old software, but it works fine!
Discourse looks really promising, but I think that what the community really needs right now is just a tool to work with, not something to experiment. Does anybody know if it can also work as a mailing list? If it ever goes in the direction of a "forum please", then I'm all for trying this new tool. The "double-clawed hammer" guy may be wrong at judging PHP, but he's great at building community management software. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On 26 March 2013 07:52, Fabien Potencier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Unfortunately and for no reasons, the Symfony2 mailing-list is gone for > the second time in a very short period of time. It happened some weeks ago > and I was not able to contact anyone about the issue. The mailing-list came > back and still not a single email from Google about what happened. > > So, I think it's time to move on. We cannot be hostages of Google for our > support and our knowledge base. There are several options to replace the > Google mailing-lists and I want to get your opinion on the best one to > choose before doing anything (the decision will probably also impact all my > other mailing-lists on Google - Swiftmailer, Silex, Twig, ...): > > * A - Migrate all the discussions on the Symfony forum ( > forum.symfony-project.org). > > * Pros: it's online since 2005, it has a massive amount of registered > people, we already have a big archive of knowledge there, it's written with > phpBB (which uses Symfony and several core team members are also part of > the Symfony community), it allows us to unify the community, which is split > right now. > > * Cons: Some people don't like forums because they want everything to > happen in an email client (but it might be possible to use phpBB that way > too). > > * B - Host our own mailing-list software and provide the same kind of > service as Google Groups > > * Pros: The disruption won't be big with what we have now. > > * Cons: The community will still be split in two, only because of some > preferences. What kind of software to use? All of them seems old and > outdated. The only one that looks great is Lamson ( > http://lamsonproject.org/). > > * C - Use a more "modern" approach to discussions like the recently > released Discourse software (http://www.discourse.org/) -- which is > Open-Source. > > Of course, relying on a third-party is not an option anymore. So, stack > overflow or any other forum/mailing-list providers are not an option. > > jQuery chose the first option (A) some time ago and they don't seem to > regret it. Drupal also uses a forum and no mailing-list as far as I know. > So, that works. > > Zend Framework and many other Open-Source projects hosts their own > mailing-lists. > > My personal preference is either A or B without a clear winner. A is > probably better for the community, B is probably less disruptive. > > What do you want us to do? > > Cheers, > Fabien > > -- > Fabien Potencier > SensioLabs CEO - Symfony lead developer > sensiolabs.com | symfony.com | fabien.potencier.org > +33 1 40 99 80 80 > > -- > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on Symfony, please read the > procedure on http://symfony.com/security > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-devs+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<symfony-devs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/symfony-devs?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en> > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Symfony developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > symfony-devs+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<symfony-devs%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on Symfony, please read the procedure on http://symfony.com/security You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Symfony developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
