On 12/30/05, Thomas Dudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Yep, couldn't agree more. I left ApacheCon with a big list of todo's :) One of them is to see if we can get a Jyve running for Commons at last (it's on every Commons proposal, we've just never gotten a jyve setup). We'd tie said Jyve to the commons-user list, as far as I can tell it would be pretty transparant. We either: a) have the email come from Thomas Dudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or: b) have the email come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the moderator would accept and allow that user. I think the latter would work fine, it's effectively what's happening now anyway. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
