I would prefer a forum myself. The reason is I then only have to use one tool and web site to accomplish my tasks. With a list I use Gmane and or Google to search. A mail reader to read and reply. And another site to browse old messages. I think that is why for many other open source projects, that is the format they have migrated to. >From what I've seen, most "Linux users" seem to prefer lists, and most >"Windows users" prefer forums. While most of the devs would be lumped in the >first group, the second will make up a large majority of users if the project >is to expand and bring on new users. Many of the "Windows users" will be >unsofisticated and a hard time figuring out multiple tools. Forums offer the best of both worlds as many programs offer subscribing to particular forums or threads so you still get them in email. Also, the better forums also offer easy searching by Google provided they are set up correctly. Forwarding to Gmane would also keep that functionality. As this project grows, it will become necessary to split the lists up further. Not all devs will want to see all the messages. This is quite easy to do with forums, but is limited with lists. I could elaborate on the problems here, but I'm sure eveyone can figure these out for themselves. You will need multiple moderators for one thing. As for the Wiki, I still think it is the best resource for a "Manual". Perhpas bringing on more people to watch over the changes and moving to a "publish after moderation" scheme would see it flurish?
________________________________ From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org on behalf of Scott Lawrence Sent: Mon 12/22/2008 10:27 AM To: Matt White Cc: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Interest in a Sipx Forum? On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 08:42 -0500, Matt White wrote: > I was wondering what the community feeling is towards a sipx forum? > Specifically a users forums. I think the developers prefer the > mailing list. > > I know I find myself asking questions that have been asked many time > before, and search mailing list is not as easy as a forum. And I often > find answers to problems in Asterisk/Trix fourms simply becuase the > issue ended up being phone related rather than sipx related. > > If there is interest from the community and maybe a blessing from > Nortel (a mention on the sipx wiki and sip foundry page) then our > company is willing to host the forums on our web servers. > > I would also need a few volunteers to help act as moderators, although I > think the Sipx community is fairly well behaved ;-) While I personally don't find most forum implementations any easier to use than a good list/wiki combination, I'm very much interested in input from the community. One thing I feel strongly about is that we should not have both - the developers already have multiple places to look for what's going on, and our responsiveness to each will be diminished if we add to that. My experience with most forum interfaces is that they are more time-consuming to peruse and not really better to search than a list (indeed, most are much less search-engine friendly than the archives of our list are now). I have been working on a plan to upgrade our project infrastructure, so now is a good time to have the discussion. I'll post something about what we're going to do after New Years once we've worked out some of the budget questions around it. _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users
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