On 8/14/13 2:15 PM, "Jeffry Houser" <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote:
>On 8/14/2013 3:07 PM, Alex Harui wrote: >> >> Currently, Apache requires mailing lists. They are archived and >> searchable and seem to show up in google searches. >> >> I suppose we could have a discussion forum that echoes everything to the >> mailing list. > > I wonder how we create a "Web interface" to this list? It sounds >possible, but I'm not sure if it sounds easy. :-) I do virtually all of my forum work via email, so for me, I can't really think of any differences between the forums and this mailing list. I go look at the archives for the mailing list about as often as I went to the web interfaces of the forums and they also seem the same to me, but maybe I'm missing some feature of the forums that I don't use. I often end up using both archives since one is better at thread views than the other. I suppose one feature of forums is inline graphics which the Apache text-only mailing lists don't handle, but as far as managing traffic so folks can follow the highlights better, it isn't obvious to me how forums would be better. Maybe the archives have a web service that we could build a Flex app to leverage. -Alex
