Russel Winder <[email protected]> writes:
> Hans,
>
> On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:42 +0200, Hans Dockter wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> Until now, our user mailing list has been the primary channel for this
>> kind of thing. While this has worked reasonably well we feel that the
>> Gradle community deserves better, so we went looking for alternatives.
>>
> I challenge the value judgement that email is not as good as other
> alternatives, I like email, it works the way I want to work. Or put
> another way . . .
>>
> [ . . . ]
>
>> We would like to get your opinion and feedback on this endeavour and
>> solicit your help to kickstart this new initiative that we are calling
>> the “Gradle Forums”.
>>
> I really hate forums as a tool for interaction. It means I have to go
> to them, and that doesn't happen as I have about 60+ communities to deal
> with.
I agree 100%. Email is really the preferred way when dealing with a
large number of communities. I don't want to visit 30+ different forums,
each with their own UI etc.
One compromise may be to move to google groups. I follow a great number
of lists there (entirely by email) but they also have a decent (imho, I'm
not using it very much :-) web interface. It seems to work ok.
/Jeppe
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