On Tuesday February 10 2015 17:45:39 Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > "Complementary" implies that the items in question reinforce each other in a > positive manner.
I think they would, but who am I ... =) > Having both forums and mailing lists would be harmful to the community. We'd > end up with two bubbles (one much smaller, probably) that don't interact with > each other. I'd take that as an indication that the (much) larger one works better - and let the other one die its natural death if that's its fate. As to being harmful to the community: the current mailing lists are intended mostly for support and technical issues. That creates a bit of a one-sided, single-minded community, no? (and I'm almost tempted to say - what community ;)) IMHO, a forum would be much more conductive to organising things like collaborative efforts, user groups, but also to run polls etc. Anyway, macports-dev was probably not the best place to bring this up... > > to get distracted. > > Use email filters. Bah, doesn't work. Just means more locations to check for new email ... > Use Mailman digests. Except that those contain all messages of all subjects, instead of 1 message per thread. A good threading email client would be better, and doesn't oblige you to copy paste subject lines and the relevant bits of a message before you can even start replying. > Like third-party archive sites basically do? No, I had the reverse in mind, for people who don't want to visit a forum but still subscribe to what's going on there. There is forum software that allows you to add a comment by replying to the alert/emails you get. Anyway, I'm not going to keep defending the idea in a resounding void of indifference and lack of enthusiasm, but let it go the way of the dodo (like myself, but under the French meaning of sleep) =) R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
