Hi, Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2012-10-07 13:19:
I think whats trying to be said is that some lists such as QA for instance and others would need to find a home on the forums as well because not all end users want to subscribe to a mailing list but woudl prefer to sign up and get answers on forums. Also i think as well that forums will get more community members involved as well.
don't get me wrong: I don't want to render your work useless - I really do appreciate what you do with regards to the forums.
The way I understood was that for certain *users*, mailing lists are too much of a barrier, and so I'd suggest we start with typical user support forums.
Moving website, QA and other areas of working to a forum is doomed to fail, IMHO. I really don't feel comfortable that we start in such a big way, and would propose starting small and simple, only with user support forums, and then see where it goes.
For most of the working areas, a migration to a forum doesn't make sense. As an example: If the barrier to enter a mailing list is too high for someone, how should he be involved in technical translations (l10n@), administration of websites (website@) or verification of bugs (qa@)?
That being said, I didn't read the entire thread, but wanted to share my gut feeling nontheless...
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