On 2021/03/07 06:48:56, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 24/02/2021 à 15:57, Christoph Rüger a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I just wanted to ask, what you think about having a Discourse Forum for > > Freemarker. They are offering a free version for OSS projects. > > https://blog.discourse.org/2018/11/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/ > > > > I just saw it in another Open Source project I am participating (bndtools > > <https://bnd.discourse.group/>): They now have a Discourse Forum which > > replaced their Google groups Mailinglist. Since then I think > > > > I personally like discourse forums a lot and I think they have good tools > > for improved discussions (tagging, quotes, pasting screenshots). I think it > > makes the community more visible and encourages interaction. > > Not sure what the policy is about that since Freemarker is an Apache > > project. > > > > Just wanted to bring this up for discussion. > > > > Christoph > > Hi Christoph, > > We could rather create a #freemarker channel at the ASF. Like for instance we > have https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/CD3TJJJ5B
Thanks and sorry for the late reply. Not sure personally if I like the Slack idea here. Since Slack chat is by nature supposed to be more real-time I imagine it makes sense if you have a larger community being "always online" and interaction. For freemarker I think a more asynchronous medium is better since it is currently more low-traffice. I could be wrong but I imagine it a bit more silent chat, and not sure the useful content would be available for the public. The advantage of a forum like Discourse is the asynchronous nature and the easier accessibility (public forum = indexed in google). I know the archive https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] is also index in google...., but....wait a minute.... speaking of the archive I just realized that it is possible to register online in the archive and even reply from online directly on the website - what I am doing right now :) So maybe this serves a similar purpose as I had in mind with discourse forum. Discourse is a bit more feature rich with quoting, tagging, etc. but that's not too important. I think I will try it out that way and I am fine :) Forget my initial suggestion. Have a nice evening. > > Jacques > >
