ons, 16 12 2009 kl. 09:36 +0100, skrev Rene Teerwill: > 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.
Can I also reply to messages from within the mail reader? If I had to log into some web page to actually reply, I would never reply... > 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. My main concern is the regular contributors. If a forum is better for users, but worse for developers, then it is definitely a no go. > Mailing lists were created in a time where webpages had nearly no > support for dynamic content. How is 'dynamic content' in any way relevant? > > 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? That would be the first question the investigation would have to answer :-) Seriously, I'm not sure. I would like to know how day-to-day usage would change. You claim a forum is superior so something must be different. What is that difference? Would it change the way regular contributors have to interact with each other? Can you still send patches as easily? How would things change from an administration point of view? Also, I should mention, that you would not only have to convince me, but also the other regulars on this list... Søren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
