"Apache Policy is that if it didn't happen on the mailing list, it didn't
happen."
This policy is more important for the dev list where the mailing list is
an integral part of the decision making process and is the official
record of the project.
For user's, it is not so important.
I currently subscribe here and am one of the 2800 on LinkedIn.
This is a more active place but LinkedIn is going to grow simply because
LinkedIn is already a large group and is part of a larger community with
300 million members.
It may be a while before the quality of discussion on LinkedIn matches
this mailing list but I would be opposed to supporting any other forum
since 1 mailing list and 1 forum is enough.
There is no need to pull scarce resources from Apache to build something
from scratch that competes with a Maven group that has 2800 members already.
Ron
On 22/07/2014 4:11 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote:
Apache Policy is that if it didn't happen on the mailing list, it didn't
happen.
The ASF *is* mailing lists.
If you want a forum-like interface there's Nabble...
GMail does great structuring and search for me.
On 22 July 2014 21:09, james northrup <[email protected]> wrote:
bikeshedding
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Ron Wheeler <
[email protected]> wrote:
On 22/07/2014 1:21 PM, Graham Leggett wrote:
On 22 Jul 2014, at 7:17 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]
wrote:
Not true.
You get an e-mail (individual or digest) that you can scan to see if
you
want to participate in the discussion.
No more onerous than belonging to this group.
It also sorts out promotions and job offers from "real" discussions.
You mean like a mailing list? :)
Yes.
that was in response to a specific question.
Google does a way better job than any forum search function, and that’s
the only meaningful feature in most forum software. Whenever I see a
forum
I generally ask “why not just a mailing list”?
Better threading. Better connection to profiles. Easy to see how active
the group is and who belongs.
Single sign-on for all groups.
Maven group already exists with 2800 members.
Regards,
Graham
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