7 Mar
2011
7 Mar
'11
11:50 p.m.
I think you need to mention:
- which mailing lists (all ? only user ? devs ?)
In my opinion not all mailing list have the same need. While the user
list is very much about support discussions, the dev list is about
design and discussions about the future of XWiki.
I'm not sure forum software will be good for that
- and which forum software ? an internaly manage software ? a cloud
based software ?
Balsamiq (great mockup tool which has an XWiki integration) uses
getsatisfaction.com
http://community.balsamiq.com/balsamiq for their support forums.
This is a cloud based service that is an interesting candidate for the
"user" forums.
I don't think it fits the need for "devs" discussions.
For devs discussions what we would more need is a more integrated
experience with xwiki.org, namely being able to link and capture
discussion threads with the content itself being discussed.
This could force us to make "proposals" a "document" in the wiki
instead
of just being an email.
Ludovic
Le 07/03/11 23:13, Andreas Hahn a écrit :
Hi everyone,
I'd like to make the proposal to drop the existing mailing lists in
favor of a forum (bulletin board) software.
The objective is to promote the XWiki community discussions to a broader
audience.
1) A forum serves like an advertising window as anyone can read the
contributions without subscription.
2) Anyone can judge the activity by reading the view count.
3) New users can get in touch with the community without being urged to
subscribe to a mailing list.
4) Many people consider mailing lists as spam and prefer not to subscribe
5) Contributions have a longer visibility and older entries will get
responses
6) Communication gets more efficient as the same topics won't get
repeatedly discussed
7) To my experience forums get much better indexed by google as mail
collectors like Nabble , Markmail, e.t.c.
8) Forums encourage user to user discussions and you will see new users
taking an active role
9) There should be at least one additional category IMHO: administrators
10) A forum is more pleasure to read once a topic split into many threads
11) A forum is beneficial when expecting increasing support requirements
- some real large scale forums were run by just a few moderators
12) More people will see what a teriffic job the XWiki team does.
Here's my +1
Andreas
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