Thanks for the explanation Eric. One thing I've learned at Sun is not to delay a workable solution today for a "fix it right" solution tomorrow, if the workable solution is not that much work. Who do I contact about adding a new Jive forum for compilers-tools?
OBCAPITULATE: Iknowwedon'tlikeJiveforums.Idon'tlikethemeither.Somepeople findthemusefulforsomethingsincludingme.I'dlovetoautomatethe wholething.It'llbereallynicewhenwefixitright.:) --chris Eric Boutilier wrote: > It actually is on the last one, but not the other two. > The last one is the all-inclusive list of opensolaris.org > discussions (which uses the GNU Mailman mailing list system). > Some of these are bridged (mirrored) to/from a corresponding > Jive forum: (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa) > > But some aren't. The reason for this is explained, e.g., here: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2007-August/003779.html > > > So in order to be comprehensive, a while back, we did away with > a link called "Discussions" on the top-level left sidebar. > Instead there is a link called "Jive Forums", and above that a > link called "Mail Lists". The latter is all-inclusive the former > is a subset. > > Going forward, the idea is to phase out Jive eventually and > provide a modern GUI interface to the mailing-lists. In other > words, architecturally, we expect it to be literally or > virtually an extension to Mailman, so every list intrinsically > has a "forum". > > Eric >
