I had to move to Gname because I just don't have the time to wade through hundreds of e-mails every day. Personally, I think its an excellent alternative to the mailing list. I recommend that people use it, since this is such an active list and the project is so broad in scope.
On 8/17/03 8:31 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Paul Hammant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try Gmane if you do not like the Mail-list concept. It is very ususal > for Apache projects to centre their activities on a mail-list. At least > it has been for many years now. This is VERY unlikey to change. > > - Paul > >> This is the first open source project that I have joined, but is there >> a better mechanism compared to a mailing list? Just got back, and >> check my mail box to find over 200 e-mails. End up having to read >> replies, and not knowing what the actual questions were. >> >> Would it be better to have a forum like environment, whereby people >> can track the topics being discussed, and contribute to the ones that >> are closest to their hearts? At the very least we can view the >> questions, and the replies. >> >> Also, maybe I need to catch up on my reading, but I seem to notice >> coding going on, and people starting to patch the system up. Is there >> any design documentation out? Use cases, sequence diagrams ? all that >> object oriented design stuff? Would help alot for people to get a >> holistic view of what is going on in the system >>
