oVirt Forum Pilot

[Eli Mesika]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Barry Kostjens" <bkostjens at ilimburg.nl>
> Cc: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>, "Barry Kostjens" <bkostjens at internetlimburg.nl>, infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:06:21 AM
> Subject: Re: oVirt Forum Pilot
> 
> On 05/09/2012 05:49 PM, Barry Kostjens wrote:
> > I was thinking about MyBB.
> >
> > It has a 'mysupport' mod that adds the 'thread answered / solved'
> > function, and it also lets you set a 'best answer'.
> >
> > You can have a look at it here: http://mods.mybb.com/view/mysupport
> 
> I think the only issue raised around this is "does it work two-way
> with
> emails"?

Seems that it has plug-in for posting via email (the other way is trivially supported)
http://mods.mybb.com/view/post-via-email

> 
> >
> >
> > Op 9 mei 2012, om 16:44 heeft Oved Ourfalli het volgende
> > geschreven:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Barry Kostjens"<bkostjens at internetlimburg.nl>
> >>> To: "Eli Mesika"<emesika at redhat.com>
> >>> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:39:19 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: oVirt Forum Pilot
> >>>
> >>> Any more opinions?
> >>>
> >>> Dunno how many people there are on this list?
> >>>
> >> I love the idea of a forum, with E-mail gateways.
> >> The problem with a forum is that we should make sure we poll it
> >> frequently, and provide fast answers, as people tend to be more
> >> patient on mailing lists as they are on forums.
> >> Also, some forums give you score and titles on participation and
> >> help you give other users, so this could also be a motivation for
> >> users to help one another.
> >> Some forums also give the ability to set threads as "answered",
> >> and what the answer is, and that's also important as you can
> >> sometimes get lost in the information on long E-mail threads.
> >>
> >> Didn't get a chance to take a look at the implementation
> >> suggestions below, but IMO an option that gives the abilities
> >> mentioned above will be the winner :-)
> >>
> >> Oved
> >>
> >>> Op 8 mei 2012 om 17:20 heeft Eli Mesika<emesika at redhat.com>  het
> >>> volgende geschreven:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: "Barry Kostjens"<bkostjens at ilimburg.nl>
> >>>>> To: "Heiko W.Rupp"<hrupp at redhat.com>
> >>>>> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:57:10 PM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: oVirt Forum Pilot
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is what Doron said about it:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The thing is, it creates duplication.
> >>>>> So people wither use both the list and the forum,
> >>>>> or randomly selects one. Then you get people trying to
> >>>>> cross-reference
> >>>>> the lists and the forums...
> >>>>> Now once we get into this state, it'll be impossible to monitor
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> various channels as I try to do today.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think that forum for this purpose is much friendly.
> >>>> +1 for a forum instead of the users list.
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Op 8 mei 2012, om 16:54 heeft Heiko W.Rupp het volgende
> >>>>> geschreven:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Am 08.05.2012 um 16:32 schrieb Barry Kostjens:
> >>>>>>> I made a suggestion to Doron Fediuck for setting up a ovirt
> >>>>>>> forum
> >>>>>>> pilot which might deprecate the users list in the future.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Why not have both? A mailing list is perfect for offline usage
> >>>>>> and
> >>>>>> for (some) forums there exist bi-directional email
> >>>>>> gateways.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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