oVirt Forum Pilot

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:54:47 AM
> Subject: Re: oVirt Forum Pilot
> 
> On 05/10/2012 03:07 AM, Eli Mesika wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> >> To: infra at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:44:57 AM
> >> Subject: Re: oVirt Forum Pilot
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- 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
> > 
> > also found this nice forum comperator if you want to compare myBB
> > with any other open source forum software
> > it is very easy to see all forum software features at once
> > (I had tried several and myBB had the best rank)
> > 
> > http://www.forum-software.org/forum-comparator
> 
> Nice! Btw, IIRC mybb was used for jboss forums , maybe prior to
> RedHat days.
> I really liked their forum back then (not that I have any objections
> to
> what is going on now ;) )
> 

i think nabble is very popular for archving mailing lists as a forum: http://n6.nabble.com/archive-your-mailing-list.html

jenkins users for e.g. http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/

> > 
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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