[Mageia-discuss] Community forum

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 17:44:27 CEST 2010


Op zondag 19 september 2010 16:14:24 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
> 2010/9/19 Remco Rijnders <remco at webconquest.com>:
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:44:50AM -0400, SinnerBOFH wrote:
> >> On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Maurice <maurice at bcs.org.uk> wrote:
> >> >> Mailing lists are a good start, but we need to get a Web Forum
> >> >> up and running as soon as possible.
> >> > 
> >> >  Yes, that would be a good move, but personally I would prefer a
> >> > newsgroup (simply because it's more convenient), if that were
> >> > possible.
> >> 
> >> Hi Maurice,
> >> 
> >> I love USENET, been on it since mid 90's. But it's dying and new Linux
> >> users do not know that it even exists.
> >> 
> >> Today web forum is the only way Mageia will be noticed.
> >> 
> >> Sad but true.
> > 
> > But one thing doesn't have to exclude the other, does it? Even though
> > having NNTP groups may not be very visible, I would be happy having them.
> > Perhaps even some gatewaying can be done not just between the mailing
> > list and the newsgroups, but perhaps even to the forum boards?
> > 
> > Besides... despite what the popular opinion might be, you don't have to
> > be a rocket scientist to be on usenet! Many newsgroups have actually
> > improved in quality in recent years in my opinion.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Remco
> 
> Although it's true what you say about usenet (I remember a very good
> time on oulm (was that correct?)) and I loved reading lots of groups
> with Emacs-Gnus, today the webforums are the way to go in userland as
> mailinglists are the preferred plattforms in devland.
> 
> I think the main goal should be to keep everything as centralized as
> possible. Announcements (to the users and the public) must be in the
> same place as user discussions and support. Gates from one to another
> platform are there but they are also sources of missing mails/postings
> or inconsistent discussion threads.
> 
> The chaotic way of news publishing at Mandriva (sometimes even hidden
> in blogs), discussions of the same topic taking place in several
> plattforms (see MUGs forum and mailing list) was a nightmare, let's
> not repeat the mistake.
> 
> wobo
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i agree


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