C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote:
> > What about the forum interface?
> >
> > It's a bit late to say this, but it's just occurred to me that the old
> > list had a forum interface. Personally I don't use those much, but for
> > people looking to post a first question or answer a question while
> > browsing, that is probably very valuable.
> >
> > What is our replacement for that functionality, and can we get it
> > clearly linked from <http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html>
> > before closing down the old service?
>
> The value of CollabNet's new Discussion Services (once you overlooked the
> small detail that for many folks that just didn't work at all) was that the
> forums were tightly bound to a real mailing list. You could start a thread
> in email, continue it via the UI if you were away from your personal
> computer, etc. Most importantly, you didn't have to constantly (and
> manually) monitor the forum UI for new posts -- just subscribe to the
> mailing list. So, if our "replacement" is merely a discussion forum with no
> tight binding to the mailing list, I'd be tempted to suggest not bothering
> with it at all.
Yes, I agree. The CollabNet Discussion Services are rather good now that
most of the bugs have been fixed. I just hope we don't cause too much
hurt to the community by this move away. The users need all the help
they can get.
If we can find any user-friendly way of reading and posting to the list
via a web browser, I still think it would be worth linking to it from
the mailing lists help page. The GMane "blog" interface allows posting:
<http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel>
So does its news-like threaded interface,
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel>,
via a "Followup" option in a drop-down menu, although that only
sometimes responds to my clicks.
How about we point to one of those?
- Julian
Received on 2010-01-07 19:01:28 CET