Re: [xwiki-users] Drop mailing lists in favor of a forum software

On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Andreas Hahn wrote: I'm not sure how to read your last 2 paragraphs. Just note that fro my POV there's no "you" and "me" here. There's only a global community and you're part of it. That said at some point some people are going to need to work to make it happen, this is where the distinction will happen. How far are you willing to help? Maybe a first step would be that you help find either a forum software that fits the bill or a hosted service that would work for us. From the people who answered so far my feeling is that: * people seem to agree in general that at least for users a forum would be nicer * since xwiki committers provide a substantial amount of answers to the user list as of today it would be nice that they can continue to have the information coming to me My personal POV is indeed that I'd like a forum for both the participation part (ie awarding status/points to active participants to surface them) and the categorization part but indeed I don't see myself going to the forum so it has to come to me. I think this is easy to achieve since on forums like getsatisfaction you can subscribe to the whole forum and thus receive all posts. What would be even better is if I could post or reply by replying to the mail. Now back to getsatisfaction I think before we could use it we'd need to check: * are there any limitations for free open source forums? What's their position on open source? * how can we get all the posts in a neutral and standard format should we want to move to another tool later on? Thanks -Vincent