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

Am 14.03.2011 09:16, schrieb Vincent Massol: 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. be nicer user list as of today it would be nice that they can continue to have the information coming to me For my own FOSS project I'm hoping to start soon - I'll be going with http://stackoverflow.com. Providing support means checking the site for tagged questions a couple of times a day. It's just one mouse click. For me it makes no real difference in getting mails or checking a forum as long as you have a one-click list of open topics. Gathering all the information about all possible options and criteria can get very time consuming so I think we should try to rule out something first. Forums that are operated by other providers (getsatisfaction, stackoverflow, ...) might * be discontinued without warning (see jive) * change their policy later (no more free forums) * not expose user mail addresses and forum content (or might change that policy) so you're locked in. * not be as flexible as own forums if you want to change something (add category, ...) OTOH operating an own forum * requires admin efforts (must be maintained and updated, backups, ...) * may not be as publicly visible as that of other providers (because of their advertisements ...) * may not be as innovative as special forum operators ('awarding for active participants', ...) In addition there are concerns valid for both: * Is it important to somehow import the existing mail archive ? So IMO this is the first decision - is it ok to rely on somebody else ? and then decide which one. I'd be ok to spend time on it once its clear which way to go. However - as for me - nothing will happen fast as beside of my daily work I already have a side project so this is kind of side-project-side-project. Now for getsatisfaction - I don't know anything about it except that what can be found on their site. They don't seem to offer free accounts for open source. I've also seen no indication you can get mail alerts for new contributions. So how do we approach this ? bye Andreas 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. check: position on open source? want to move to another tool later on? _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users