Hi Vasiliy, * Vasiliy (vassun at gmail.com) wrote: > Yes it is inconvenient to read it in a mail archive. This is why I am > not subscribed and use it in a web-forum form only. If you try to do > the same > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=15730&tstart=0 > > then you'll find all posts as well as comments and discussion all in > one place. Which is much more convenient and useful then webpage or > wikipage. Regular webpage does not allow viewer to ask questions or > any other participation.
The only problem with this is that out of the 1,117 messages I have in my install-discuss mail archive (going back to March '06), only 306 appear to have been posted via the web forums. That tells me that the mailing list interface is in far more use than the forums (which isn't at all surprising to me). It seems to me that you need to make whatever information your trying to convey as accessible (and by accessible I don't just mean having postings in a forum that people have to pick through) to as many people as possible if you want the broadest possible input (which I think you do and should be a goal for all of us). With that said, by providing a detailed design document then everyone can participate in reviewing it no matter what medium they choose to use to provide feedback far more easily than having to piece together various email messages or forum postings. It's also much easier for new reviewers to come up to speed since all the information they should need is in one document and not spread across forum posts. It's also much easier to update a single document as the design changes (regardless of how your reading things, trying to follow a design as it evolves via forum postings is beyond inconvenient and dare I say impossible). I will say that I've been trying to follow what your doing and I got lost pretty early on because of the way your presenting things. We're trying to build a community here, that means (IMO) making things as easy as possible for people to get involved (among other things). Cheers, -- Glenn Lagasse KISS/Approachability Sun Microsystems, Inc. x21293, 781-442-1293
