On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 17:34 -0700, Gregory Youngblood wrote: > On Oct 8, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > > >> As Bernd Helber remarked, forums can play a significant role in Linux > >> distributions, as they allow users to "have conversations". It would be > >> great if an initiative to create one for OI could be started. > > > > I agree that forums are more user-friendly when you're searching for > > an answer that already exists. However, I find mailing lists easier to > > interact with and reply to on a regular basis. I think the reason the > > OpenSolaris forums worked so well is that each forum also had a > > mailing list bridged with it, so you got the best of both worlds (easy > > search and easy participation). My request would be the the mailing > > lists not be dumped in favor of forums, but rather set up as another > > way of participating with the forums. > > +1 > > At least initially, having the mailing list bridged with the forums provides > best of all possibilities. > > If we see a nice surge in users/traffic, then the volume might tend to cause > mailing list traffic to grow too unwieldy, but we can cross that bridge if we > ever get to it. And, it would be a great problem to have too. :) > Oh god, please no! Not another lame forum/mlm cluster fsck....
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