On 03/08/2011 07:45 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Andreas Hahn wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'd like to make the proposal to drop the existing mailing lists in >> favor of a forum (bulletin board) software. >> >> The objective is to promote the XWiki community discussions to a broader >> audience. >> >> 1) A forum serves like an advertising window as anyone can read the >> contributions without subscription. > > You don't need any subscription to read mailing lists. > See http://xwiki.markmail.org/ > >> 2) Anyone can judge the activity by reading the view count. > > Same here: > http://xwiki.markmail.org/ > >> 3) New users can get in touch with the community without being urged to >> subscribe to a mailing list. > > How? Even with forums you need to subscribe. > >> 4) Many people consider mailing lists as spam and prefer not to subscribe >> 5) Contributions have a longer visibility and older entries will get >> responses > >> 6) Communication gets more efficient as the same topics won't get >> repeatedly discussed > >> 7) To my experience forums get much better indexed by google as mail >> collectors like Nabble , Markmail, e.t.c. >> 8) Forums encourage user to user discussions and you will see new users >> taking an active role >> 9) There should be at least one additional category IMHO: administrators >> 10) A forum is more pleasure to read once a topic split into many threads >> 11) A forum is beneficial when expecting increasing support requirements >> - some real large scale forums were run by just a few moderators >> 12) More people will see what a teriffic job the XWiki team does. >> >> Here's my +1 > > I have some good news for you: we already have a forum! :) > > See http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/MailingLists > And more specifically: > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Forum > > Now if this forum doesn't fit your needs could you explain what requirements > you'd have for a forum and which solution you'd pick? > I personally liked jive forums but it doesn't exist anymore (it's folded into > a full collaboration suite now). > > Thanks > -Vincent
This was thoroughly discussed four years ago, and the conclusion was against installing a specific forum, and stick with Nabble as a forum-like view of the mailing list activity: http://markmail.org/thread/gbdnyb7jbh4ha5ja -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
