On 12/19/05, J. C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:43:37 -0600, Joshua Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >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. > > Please No. > > Web forums, wikis and similar web based crap is only pandering to those > who refuse to install a decent mail/news reader. If you prefer a web > interface (usually with broken threading), just use one of the existing > web archives of the mail list rather than trying to force everyone into > *your* preferred way of doing things. >
Well, wikis are a different story, and I'm glad we have one of those. As far as general discussion and announcements go, I prefer the mailing list and gmail. > JCR > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
