I know about Nabble, yet I don't think it is as powerful as a forum.
One thing about mailing lists is that you need to subscribe to post a message and receive the answers. I know that you can unsubscribe at any moment, but you still get a lot of other messages along with what you're interested in.
Another thing is that if we host a forum, we know how long it will be there. If we use mail, it will be in our account, and for the moment on some servers, like Nabble. But we don't know for sure how long it will be there, and how long it will display the xwiki mailing list.
Again, personally I prefer mails, but we should listen to the users' voice.
On 3/14/07, hritcu <
catalin.hritcu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Vincent,
I would have also voted for the forum, I thought it would be really useful.
But now that you tell us about Nabble, sure it has he best of both a forum
and a mailing list.
But why didn't we know about Nabble before asking for a forum ?
vmassol wrote:
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In order for a forum to be of any use, developers and users should know
about it. It should be linked more prominently from
xwiki.org. Now I don't
even know if there is any link, and this is bad.
Catalin
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