On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Vladyslav Kosulin wrote:
The forums on www.jboss.org have been the designated place for design discussions since their inception over a year ago.
Agree. Do not know how helful are these forums for JBoss developers, but user support forums completely fail on their promise, IMHO. Vlad
The benefit for design and development discussion is clear. You can very easily get the whole history of the discussion thread in front of you (or several threads). Even if the discussion occured 6 months ago and you were not there then to read through it.
My personal preference is nntp + web interface (Google?) for nntp archives search.
Mail list + downloadable or searchable (Google?) archives is on the second place.
And I hate web forums as tool for serious discussions.
This is why I do not understand why you are so happy with using nukes ;-)
As for user support... there are more people registered to the forums than are subscribed to the mailing list -- but then the mailing list users are die hards who want all the information pushed to them. Most forum users prefer the occasional pull. I don't think the forums fail on their promise in any way.
I do not remember if forums require separate registration, but ifg you mean registered users of iboss.org, this not fair comparison, IMHO.
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