Erik Enge wrote: >I can't speak for everyone, obivously, but I don't use forums, sorry. >That may or may not matter to you but consider it a datapoint in your >evaluation of whether or not to move to a forum[1]. > >Erik. > >[1] I'm assuming one of those browser-only forums/discussion-boards. > > One nice thing about a forum is that different project teams can communicate as verbosely as they want without disturbing others (and without having to instantiate a new mailing list for each sub-project team). The comment about Gentoo is a valid data point, as it is fairly common for user-friendly communities to use forums to communicate. Part of the attraction is, I think, that "threading" is not a half-baked feature of the client, but instead an intrinsic structural feature. I hate all email clients' abilities to successfully thread my mail.
Whether a forum is best for Gardeners, I don't know -- I think a similar level of collaboration (in many ways superior) can come from a well-maintained wiki, which we already have (in budding form, to continue the gardening analogy). Some things, like the implementation/library matrix we're discussing would be somewhat difficult to pull off in a forum, but easy in a wiki, for example. -Josh Stone- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
