2009/5/1 Alex Kotchnev <akoch...@gmail.com> > -1 on the forum. nabble, markmail and others do an excellent job at > providing a forum interface to a mailing list.
I would really contend the "excellent". It is crude and not really useably imo. The main point for a forum would be exactly your second point: > The community is small enough and there is no need to split the attention > w/ a forum that wouldn't bring anything new to the table. > The question is, if the community should grow or not. In my personal experience Tapestry is much more "newbie-friendly" than might seem from some of the remarks about the steep learning curve in other threads. I personally find it easier to grasp and more convenient than for example grails. The community here on the list is composed mainly of professional developers I think (which I am not one of) and for this circle of persons mailing lists, jira, confluence etc. are second nature and they are definitely good tools. BUT: What you do with requiring use of mighty but sometimes complicated professional tools from newcomers is piling new complexity on that of the framework and thus easily intimidating them. If you want to reach people new to web development - and thus potential future users of tapestry - the entry barriers should be as low as possible. And forums are the natural first stop for newcomers as soon as they run into problems nowadays. And for the sake of help they are much more convenient than a mailinglist. You can impose a much better structure, edit your posts, contact people and get contacted without disclosing your email-address, moderate easily and so on. The perfect solution and topping cream would be a forum/community system written in Tapestry of course, as a showcase and demonstration of its capabilities as well as a solid starting point for Tapestry apps. But I am aware of the effort and time that takes.
