I've never been a big fan of forums, I think they split thing up to much (all the boards with subboards, etc). So I've used the mailing-list a lot. Nice immediate updates of everything, plus you only need one client for all lists out there.
So when we're choosing between A and B, I would go with A (mailing-list). I do think Discourse looks very promising. I think it combines many of pros of both a forum and mailing-list. So in favour of "staying up-to-date" and "bringing the community together", I would say ditch both the forum and mailing-list, and replace them with Discourse. I also think a dedicated StackOverflow site would be a good idea. The community (including me) is already using StackOverflow, because it's great for what it solves. I know it's a 3rd party service (so not an option for the problem being addressed), but I do want to mention that I think StackOverflow and Discourse would compliment eachother very nicely (StackOverflow for Q/A, Discourse for other discussions). -- Jasper N. Brouwer On 26-03-2013, at 07:52, Fabien Potencier <fabien.potenc...@gmail.com> 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 -- -- 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 symfony-devs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-devs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 symfony-devs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
