Personally I don't think the IP-list has enough volume to justify a split and that would be detrimental.
If people don't want to subscribe to a list for fear of spam it's fair enough but the list has been working just fine until now and I personally would not pay attention to a forum per se myself. Anyway, just my 2 cents. - Sylvain Dino Viehland wrote: > Just thought I'd collect some opinions here. Internally we discussed > this sometime ago but never made any decisions and haven't done much > to push this forward... On CodePlex we have the ability to enable a > discussion forum (which would look like > http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlex/Thread/List.aspx) where people could > post questions, discuss issues, etc... CodePlex is heavily > RSS-enabled so you could also get RSS feeds to track the discussions > in RSS form. There've been some requests on the main page > (http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython) and at least one person who > didn't like the mailing list. > > But obviously we don't want to get rid of the mailing list format - > personally it's the format I prefer (and find the least overhead for > replying). But I've started to use RSS a lot recently so I can > certainly see the appeal there, and maybe others here do as well... > Overall my own personal worry is that we'll be fragmenting the two > discussions and actually hinder some discussion. > > So, thoughts? Should we: > Very easy: > just open the flood gates on the discussions and everyone can > go where they want - let the search engines sort it out! > vs Requires some work: > open up the RSS feed but setup some thread-propagation-bot? > open up the RSS feed but send out regular digests? > vs the unknown: > something completely different? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
