Instead of replying one by one I'm just going to tackle all of my
opinions at the same time :)
It was discussed quite a bit about why we would want a contributor
section of the forum. This is not a mandate for people to move from
mailing list to forum, actually it's almost the complete opposite. What
this would do is allow people who traditionally have only used forums
(this would have included myself until just a few months back), to get
involved. This is a way to become more open to users who don't qualify
as "power users" yet have a means to contribute. Minimal moderation
would be needed in this section as we would expect that this is where
"the real business" gets done, yet what I imagine is that if there is a
discussion between two users in the contributor section (that rightly
belongs in the contributor section) and we think that other devs might
like reading it, we could then ask the new users to start a mailing list
thread. This would be a duplication of work BUT it would also encourage
and support a new group of contributors.
As of now LibO is WAY under "staffed" (meaning we could probably double
our developer numbers and 5x our QA numbers, let alone our UX, website,
etc... teams) and still have room to have more people involved. A forum
is a perfect way to encourage this.
In terms of moderating these, the one thing that we would do is help
users get comfortable with gerrit & the mailing list when submitting
patches. We could also have users themselves who have programming
experience but aren't developing help new devs out in the forum.
My vote is to maintain the list of sections as is. It's up to our team
(moderation and co-coordinators) to make sure that the mailing list and
forum work in unison, and I personally don't see this being a problem at
all.
Regards,
Joel
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