'Twas brillig, and lebarhon at 13/06/11 20:18 did gyre and gimble: > BTW : I think mailing list are totally outdated and that mageia should > have a special section in this forum for these discussion, or maybe > another forum. > It's totally impossible for people who want to participate sometimes to > follow you emails everydays. It's much faster to read some topic on a > forum than dozens emails. And your final user should be able to know > what happen easily. It would be a big + in front of others distributions.
This is offtopic here. I completely disagree, incidentally. I need to read about 30 or 40 different community lists. It's *much* quicker for me to have a standard UI and a standard way of operating and a standard look and feel. Each project having a separate forum, with separate logins, with separate style and separate features etc. makes for a very hard and time consuming reading experience. There is a similar argument for why HTML messages are bad too (consistent style makes everyone's life easier). So forums are only really good if you only follow a couple of projects or only follow projects fairly superficially. Mailing lists are better for the rest of us who are have to follow more projects. Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]