On 12/30/05, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/30/05, Thomas Dudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Though that would probably be more of a > > forum-type community rather than a mailinglist-type community. > > A subject for a different thread; but after looking at the latest Jyve > stuff at ApacheCon, it seems entirely possible for a forum-type > community and a mailinglist-type community to be the same. > Nabble/GMane show that already, and something like Jyve could help do > that even more.
As a user of other projects, I've always prefered a forum approach like Spring has. It is less annoying because I don't have to read tons of mails that do not interest me the least. E.g. consider a developer that has a question about, say, commons-collections. Currently this requires registration at the commons user mailing list which also deals with lang, digster, betwixt, ... all things that the developer does not actually care about. And forums typically have a good search function (e.g. the Spring forum does) which makes it easier to find info immediately (though gmane and marc.theaimsgroup.com work well). So for users, a forum IMHO might be better (at least instead of a user mailing list). Of course it would be best if the developers can still use the system as a mailing list, i.e. they get every forum entry as a normal mail and can reply via a normal mail. And for developer mailing lists I think mailing lists are better. If a non-committer subscribes to one of those, IMO he takes an interest in the project and does not mind getting every mail there. Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
