Brandorr wrote: > On 8/20/07, Martin Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Eric Boutilier wrote: >>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Martin Man wrote: >>> >>> Phasing out the Jive forums actually is already in the longterm plan, >>> but not the near-term plan, per the OGB survey done several months ago... >>> See: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=26256&tstart=30 >> The data there only confirm what I was thinking. Jive forums are not >> used for posting (statistically they generate few percents of the >> content) and while being slow, buggy (breaking threads), obeying >> subscribe-to-post rule, and generating confusion (there are no jive >> forums for all mailing lists), I'm asking again: >> >> Why don't we get rid of them "right now(tm)" ? >> >> I'm willing to do the cleanup if anyone wants to mentor me. >> >> Step #1: replace all links on opensolaris.org/os/discussions to point to >> mailmain archives and mailman listinfo page >> >> Steo #2: add missing mailing lists >> >> Step #3: delete jive from production servers... >> >> am I missing something or am I the only one who wants to have a nice, >> clean and usable webpage for opensolaris? >> >> What additional value do the jive forums bring right now when compared >> to pure mailman? >> >> thanx for your opinions, > > My opinion is that you would probably want to host the mailing list > archives, and make them available for search and browsing. (Then > again, this could be waved as they are already archived elsewhere)
mailman does that for us since the very beginning of opensolaris.org. The links to archives are not advertised heavily though. Google does search for us better then jive anyway... > I really do think jive does cause more troubles than it resolves. I > also think that mailman can be configured to show a list of all local > lists. it definitely can, question is branding because it provides only the native plain look & feel, while our /os/discussions page has the nice opensolaris.org colors, design, etc... just my .2 cents, Martin -- http://martinman.net _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
