On 18-Feb-09, at 2:09 PM, Stephen Weiss wrote:
I third the motion.... SOLR is the second largest contributor to my
e-mail glut (my company's marketing is #1). I often have no idea
what area of Solr I'm actually asking about when I have a question,
so I would disagree and say a general forum provides a place to post
when you don't really understand the internals so well.
But almost anything would be better than the current situation.
This list is SOLR's best documentation so I wouldn't want to just
stop getting it (and stuff just goes unnoticed in digests), but it
could be presented better. A forum with a search function and
notifications would be a big improvement, especially as the
community grows.
I, for one, do not understand the motivation for a forum.
1. For people who prefer fora, nabble/markmail/etc. provide a forum-
like view to the discussion. Posts can be permanently linked to using
these sites.
2. Many people greatly prefer the mailing list format (obviously, it
takes a little bit of effort to use mailinglists effectively (e.g.,
directing the traffic to a folder/tag/etc.)
3. There isn't enough traffic to justify splitting the list into sub-
lists (or sub-fora)
Fora have the same problems as do mailinglists in terms of people
asking the same questions.
-Mike
