I actually prefer forums because there's less of a barrier to get
started. I can continue working through my browser, and I don't have to
setup a message filter.
Even if there's not a forum where developers participate, but just a
forum on winehq for users to help each other, I think that would be much
better than no forum. More users have experience with forums than
mailing lists, so it's much more likely they'll sign up.
Rolf Kalbermatter wrote:
Lionel Ulmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that (AFAIK) most if not all Wine developpers
do not share at all this view (at last for me nothing beats
either a mailing list or a newsgroups :-) ).
So you will have a nice forum full of Wine questions and no
developpers who read them to answer the posts because no-one
will care actually reading the forum.
I may be wrong though thinking that all other Wine developpers are
'dinosaurs' like me :-)
While I'm not a very active Wine developer, but participate in other
projects as well, I myself also prefer mailing lists. I can read them
offline anywhere I want without needing an online connection. It allows
you to do research on the question and prepare an answer offline as
well. Forums are more interactive but that is in this respect also
their biggest drawback. I did newsgroups in the past for a forum that
had a news link but some changes to that gateway made the newsgroup
less and less usable.
Rolf Kalbermatter
