ons, 16 12 2009 kl. 14:16 -0500, skrev Judd Storrs:
> Just playing devils advocate here for a bit.
:-) Then I'll ask some stupid questions (because I actually don't know
the answer...)
> * Sticky posts i.e. dedicated threads that hang around. For a while
> there was a lot of trouble compiling octave on ubuntu and it really
> wasn't that easy to find the old posts.
Who would mark threads as sticky? (and unmark the threads later on)
> * Forum sections would be nice and search doesn't always work out.
> For example if I want to know what's going on in image processing in
> octave, I'm not sure all posts will have the term "image processing".
Who would determine what goes in which threads?
> * Forums can be easier to browse if you're just curious and want to
> learn. For example there could be a forum on vectorization tricks. How
> would you search for that?
Often people start out with asking a question about one thing. The
thread then slowly changes topic and some neat trick about vectorisation
is given. Who would make sure this trick would end up in a vectorisation
section?
> * Subscribing to a mailing list does seem to require a greater level
> of commitment than a forum including setting up filtering rules etc.
> Occasionally, I've hit a forum and I can answer a question I'll just
> create a quick account and join the discussion.
Good point, although I must admit I'm not sure it's actually "quick" to
create an account.
> * Search doesn't work if you don't know the shop-talk.
I would claim that nothing works if you don't know the shop-talk. How
can you find the 'vectorisation' section if you don't know said term?
> Presumably an alternative would be to create separate mailing lists
> for each octave-help-ubuntu@, octave-help-image-processing@,
> octave-help-vectorization-tricks@, ... But to me that seems even worse
> than doing nothing.
Agreed. That would be worse.
> Supposedly, ubuntuforums.org is a vBullitin
> frontend to mailman. Maybe that could help?
I agree with Jaroslav who said:
"Of course, if you can transform the list to a web forum while
preserving the mailing list interface (i.e. so that I can read
and
post through e-mail as before), I can't have reasonable
objections."
I must, however, stress that I don't have the time to actually implement
this, so somebody else would have to do the leg-work...
Søren
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