2009/12/15 Søren Hauberg <[email protected]>:
> tir, 15 12 2009 kl. 13:12 +0100, skrev Rene Teerwill:
>> Are there any plans to replace the mailing list with a webforum?
>
> There are no such plans at the moment. Personally, I find mailing lists
> to be far superior as I don't have to log into some web page to get
> updated on what's going on. I just get the info directly in my mail box.
You can do that easily in a webforum by (once) subscribing all forums
you are interested in.
On the other hand: Some people may not like to get zillions of mails
about stuff they are not interested in when they want only one answer
- they could subscribe only to some specific topics or check the forum
from time to time.
I know your concerns: I was very unhappy as my main developer forums
shifted from newsgroups to a webforum and fighted agains it ("...a
newsreader is so much handier...offline...blabla...") After only a
couple of days I've got used to it. In the meantime I wouldn't want to
step back to the old system.
Mailing lists were created in a time where webpages had nearly no
support for dynamic content.
> In general, it seems like people have many great ideas on how to improve
> Octave and Octave-Forge, but few seems to be willing to actually
> contribute.
I am not familiar with setting up a webforum, but if the lack of human
ressources keeps us from shifting, I offer my time to look into that.
> Unless, somebody performs a _serious_ investigation of this impact, I
> will not consider a change to a forum an option.
How should such an investigation look like?
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