Hi Narayan, *, On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Narayan Aras <[email protected]> wrote:
> The following features do not exist in a mail list at all: > 1. Conduct precise searches (with search parameters). Oh man, you're so mistaken. mail-archive.com provides far more powerful search than any forum I've seen so far. > 2. Split the domain into hierarchical forums, which prevents a mixup of > issues. > This in turn avoids repeat discussion of the same topic endlessly. Ha, that's a good one, most forums are full of repeating issues because people are too lazy to switch to the second page or try one of the "precise searches" etc. The only solution to this would be a strict moderation that kills such duplicates immediately, but there hardly are enough moderators to close down such messages and move them into the "too lazy to search" forum... > 3. It establishes credentials of any user so that a casual visitor instantly > knows how much to trust him. Sorry, but if there is no self control (i.e. other people immediately writing "This is nonsense", then the system is a failure/it is not used by enough knowledgeable people and thus useless to those seeking help. Besides that rating is useless when you're seeking for help. <sigh>There was a time, when linux was for geeks only. Users had much more trouble setting it up, but when you were lucky enough to have internet access already, it was easy to find a solution by just entering your searchterms into the altavista webserach engine or dejavu (newsgroup search) (yes, that was before the google-era) - any you almost certainly did find a solution to your problem within the first results. Nowadays, while many problems might have that specific problems, all you find is posts about "I also have this problem" or "push up", "hey, nobody knows the answer", or my favorite "solved the problem" - .oO(nice for you a*hole, just don't tell others how you solved it)... Especially annoying are those results you get in a technical forum that deals with multiple versions or editions, that return results because people like to list their equipment in the footer and search happily matches the footer that has nothing to do with the content..</sigh> > (is he a SC member or any other office-holder? How many posts are to his > credit?) > 4. We can check out a particular user by looking at his posts (genuine helper > or trouble-maker?) You can do all that in a mailnglist as well. After all there are forum-interfaces to mailinglists where you got all that. (although I find those highly inferior to real mailinglists) Newsgroups were best, but unfortunately even fewer people would use that... > [...] > While I think the forum should be established, I am against setting it up for > SilverStripe as well. The reason is simple: It will not be possible to > migrate the threads from SilverStripe to Drupal. We should not waste efforts > on two fronts. I'm puzzles where you get the idea that it is wanted to set it up within silverstripe. I mean I have been reiterating right from the start, before even working on looking at silverstripe, drupal, etc, i.e. when writing the requirements that forums, wiki, etc should be seperate. And everytime someone wrote "forum" on the list, I was writing the same stuff. Again: *there will be no forum within silverstripe for end-users* (and also again: I don't consider the nabble ml-interface a forum in this regard) While not speaking on behalf the SC (not even member of the SC) - I don't think there will ever be a forum hosted on the tdf infrastructure. Mainly because there are existing forums already, and also because the mailinglists are the primary way of communication. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
