On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: > > As has been said previously, an unlinked forum (one which has no > interaction with the mailing list) is destined to fail, as others have > in the past. It's creates a fragmented community and poor support on > such a forum would reflect badly on the PostgreSQL community. > > Mailing lists aren't "old school". They've just got a long history, > and I think you'll find most open source projects probably have a > mailing list (or several) associated with them. But the reason why a > forum hasn't been rejected out of hand is that we recognise that there > is a demographic which probably see a mailing list as a barrier, hence > our discussion about integrating a bidirection sync between a forum > and a mailing list. And the reason why we like that idea is that it > ensures that people who would only join a forum benefit from the huge > pool of knowledge and experience of users on the mailing list. > > How about exposing our archives in the forum format (linear conversations, like GMail), and allowing registered users to send emails using a web form which automatically copies the mailing list. This would require real time update of archives, which I think currently takes a few minutes for a message to show up.
This way all of our conversation history would be available even in forum format. Regards, -- gurjeet.singh @ EnterpriseDB - The Enterprise Postgres Company http://www.EnterpriseDB.com singh.gurj...@{ gmail | yahoo }.com Twitter/Skype: singh_gurjeet Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device
