[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and lebarhon at 13/06/11 20:18 did gyre and gimble:
> BTW : I think mailing list are totally outdated and that mageia should
> have a special section in this forum for these discussion, or maybe
> another forum.
> It's totally impossible for people who want to participate sometimes to
> follow you emails everydays. It's much faster to read some topic on a
> forum than dozens emails. And your final user should be able to know
> what happen easily. It would be a big + in front of others distributions.

This is offtopic here. I completely disagree, incidentally. I need to
read about 30 or 40 different community lists. It's *much* quicker for
me to have a standard UI and a standard way of operating and a standard
look and feel.

Each project having a separate forum, with separate logins, with
separate style and separate features etc. makes for a very hard and time
consuming reading experience. There is a similar argument for why HTML
messages are bad too (consistent style makes everyone's life easier). So
forums are only really good if you only follow a couple of projects or
only follow projects fairly superficially. Mailing lists are better for
the rest of us who are have to follow more projects.

Col

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