Personally I love Stack Overflow and don't use the forum and mailing list at all — this is my first post here. I use SO to answer questions and IRC for passing discussions.
SO is great for Q&A but is not meant for discussions and IRC is too much stuff without a particular topic, so they're not a replacement for a mailing list or forum — it's not either one or another. As of forums, personally I can't stand them. Even though I don't use mailing lists, they feel better than forums anyway. On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:52:00 AM UTC+4, Fabien Potencier wrote: > > Hi all, > > Unfortunately and for no reasons, the Symfony2 mailing-list is gone for > the second time in a very short period of time. It happened some weeks > ago and I was not able to contact anyone about the issue. The > mailing-list came back and still not a single email from Google about > what happened. > > So, I think it's time to move on. We cannot be hostages of Google for > our support and our knowledge base. There are several options to replace > the Google mailing-lists and I want to get your opinion on the best one > to choose before doing anything (the decision will probably also impact > all my other mailing-lists on Google - Swiftmailer, Silex, Twig, ...): > > * A - Migrate all the discussions on the Symfony forum > (forum.symfony-project.org). > > * Pros: it's online since 2005, it has a massive amount of registered > people, we already have a big archive of knowledge there, it's written > with phpBB (which uses Symfony and several core team members are also > part of the Symfony community), it allows us to unify the community, > which is split right now. > > * Cons: Some people don't like forums because they want everything to > happen in an email client (but it might be possible to use phpBB that > way too). > > * B - Host our own mailing-list software and provide the same kind of > service as Google Groups > > * Pros: The disruption won't be big with what we have now. > > * Cons: The community will still be split in two, only because of > some preferences. What kind of software to use? All of them seems old > and outdated. The only one that looks great is Lamson > (http://lamsonproject.org/). > > * C - Use a more "modern" approach to discussions like the recently > released Discourse software (http://www.discourse.org/) -- which is > Open-Source. > > Of course, relying on a third-party is not an option anymore. So, stack > overflow or any other forum/mailing-list providers are not an option. > > jQuery chose the first option (A) some time ago and they don't seem to > regret it. Drupal also uses a forum and no mailing-list as far as I > know. So, that works. > > Zend Framework and many other Open-Source projects hosts their own > mailing-lists. > > My personal preference is either A or B without a clear winner. A is > probably better for the community, B is probably less disruptive. > > What do you want us to do? > > Cheers, > Fabien > > -- > Fabien Potencier > SensioLabs CEO - Symfony lead developer > sensiolabs.com | symfony.com | fabien.potencier.org > +33 1 40 99 80 80 > -- -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on Symfony, please read the procedure on http://symfony.com/security You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Symfony developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
