On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Catalin Hritcu wrote:
Hi Vincent,
On 3/14/07, Connected Performance <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] Forums have two more advantages: - What to communicate: Categories/topics ( i.e.'hosting xwiki',' data base topics', 'tutorials' etc, you'll get the point) enable specialization, which increases the effectiveness of developers and users (BTW: I am mostly a user of xwiki)
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This is actually a good point we should probably consider. We hardly have any categorization with the mailing lists other then the split between users and developers. Both are high traffic, and while you, or Sergiu, are probably reading everything, you cannot expect your users to do the same.
So don't you think that better categorization would help? Would it be possible to have it with the current infrastructure (e.g. we could for example tag posts, like we do for [Proposal] etc.) ? WDYT?
I think the same as Google thinks. Good search tool works quite nicely... :) I also think that anything of value from the mailing list should be moved to xwiki.org, jira, etc. so that it can be retrieved easily and in a formatted mode in the future. So if a user asks we redirect him to the page on xwiki.org and tell him kindly to RTM ;-) Last, Nabble offers RSS feeds for our mailing lists so one idea could be to use our GWT Collaborative Watch tool online on xwiki.org and let users tag threads. For those who don't know what this is, it's a collaborative RSS aggregator that allows collaborative tagging. Users can add feeds, tag posts, etc. This is some internal project right now but we could possibly showcase it on xwiki.org. Honestly, I don't think this will work in our case at hand (because it requires people to go to the information rather than the information coming to them and thus it takes too long to perform a single tag operation) but this is a really cool tool so we could showcase it in this manner and I would love to be proved wrong :-) Thanks -Vincent