I have been a resident of this list for a very long time. In the early days, this was the only place to get reliable information about what was then a relatively obscure database system. Now, local and online bookstores have shelves full of books, many of them authored by list regulars. We have expert forums which have become more more mature and tens of thousands of example projects readily accessible on github and Google code. And, lest we forget, as the product and the documentation matured, fewer desperate situations arose. The list of not such a critical last resort as it once was.
It's true that the list lost a lot of steam after the Oracle acquisition and Monty's rants had a polarizing effect. Since then, it has been low traffic with few threads of much interest. In spite of the rapid rise of NoSql, managed instances of MySQL on a cloud have become a major commodity. The relational model is not dead and reliable implementations will always be in demand. On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:53 Jigal van Hemert <ji...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi, > On 05/12/2014 20:54, Jan Steinman wrote: > >> From: Johan De Meersman <vegiv...@tuxera.be> > >> > >> I've long wanted to - but never quite got around to - write a forum > that integrated a mailing list. Bar mail clients that don't handle list > threads well, it really doesn't seem such a difficult task. > > There actually seem to be a lot of these around. I'm on several that > send me email when there are new forum postings. > > On typo3.org there used to be mailing lists only in a distant past. > Later on newsgroups were set up which communicate with the mailing lists > (newsgroups are the central source of messages). > Rather recently a forum was built on top of the newsgroup data (FUD > forum was used). Users on all three message sources can easily > communicate with eachother. > Only some mail clients have difficulty keeping the threading headers in > tact, but other than that there are no real issues. > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Jigal van Hemert. > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > >
