Luis Villa <l...@tieguy.org> writes: >I've personally never seen open source forum software that wasn't an >abysmal nightmare from a usability perspective, whereas many people >here have email clients that they have chosen and customized >specifically to deal with their workflow. So I'm very reluctant to >make anyone less productive here by forcing them to use bad software. > >Similarly, I'm strongly disinclined to create "another inbox" for list >members; again, I want this list to be productive, and additional >inboxes are a source of anti-productivity in the world.[1] > >That said, I know Karl and the infrastructure team have looked at >forum options with an eye towards using them for forums for members. >So if any of them have thoughts on the state of the art I'm all ears - >it is possible that there is now good web forum software that >integrates well with email and is pleasant to use from the web. > >I'm open to the idea at all because, as has been pointed out, our >current archives are awful (hard to browse, hard to search, etc.), and >part of the purpose of license-review (and to a lesser extent, >license-discuss) is to create a permanent record of OSI's thoughts and >wisdom on licensing. I acknowledge Rick's concern about not getting >information into local storage very easily, but IMHO it is much more >important to create information that is publicly accessible and so >useful for future generations of people who deal with licenses, and if >a web forum, maintained by OSI's infrastructure team, can help us with >that, I'm strongly in favor.
The answer is probably Sympa (http://sympa.org/), but IMHO Infra has its hands full getting a wiki set up soon. I certainly agree that the in-browser experience with Mailman is not up to modern standards, and the next version of Mailman appears to be ever-receding, sadly. So we'll probably switch away from it eventually, and when we do, having a good online forum-like interface should be part of the requirements for any new system. There's no reason we should have to choose between two interfaces. The underlying objects are the same -- discussion threads -- and whether a user interacts with those objects via email or via a browseable forum interface should be up to that user. This is how Sympa works I believe, and AFAIK how all modern message-based discussion systems work. -K >http://lifehacker.com/5364596/reduce-your-inboxes-to-streamline-your-workflow-and-reduce-stress > >On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Lior W. <opensource.*.n...@neverbox.com> wrote: >> Please don't take it the wrong way, but this seems like an opportunity to >> ask to move this mailing list to a forum. >> >> If you make sure it has un/subscription features.(both in general and in >> specific topics) and the ability to personally block someone, I think it >> could solve the aforementioned issues. >> >> Be sure you'll be neither the first nor the last to make the transition from >> a mailing list to a forum. >> I personally witnessed a very old mailing list out of the blue transitioning >> to a forum. Even one day earlier, no one could have imagined the subscribers >> getting along with it. But nowadays no one even remembers that it used to be >> a mailing list. >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Kuno Woudt - k...@frob.nl >> <+opensource+nwo+5ddf229e06.kuno#frob...@spamgourmet.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> On 01/03/2013 05:04 AM, Luis Villa wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> If you have concerns about someone’s conduct, you can speak to them >>>> directly, you can speak directly to the list moderators, or you can >>>> discuss the conduct on the list. >>> >>> >>> For those who feel the need to "speak directly to the list moderators" it >>> is perhaps useful to make that into a link which when followed informs them >>> who the list moderators are and how to contact them. >>> >>> -- kuno / warp. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> License-discuss mailing list >>> License-discuss@opensource.org >>> http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> License-discuss mailing list >> License-discuss@opensource.org >> http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >> >_______________________________________________ >License-discuss mailing list >License-discuss@opensource.org >http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss