Re: oVirt Forum Pilot

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/2012 05:43 AM, Barry Kostjens wrote: Some thoughts, maybe opinions. :) Aside from the usual "we will need moderators", there would be a need to manage mailing list interaction if it's not automatic. Someone would need to carry over threads to the mailing list to get the attention of an answerer (to join or notice the forum thread,) or just get the answer and carry it back over to the forum. I think you are correct in that a project with a web forum interface is attractive to users who prefer forums (and there are lots of them); answers are easier to find; and other good benefits. Thanks for standing up and being willing to make this happen. I think it's important for oVirt forums to be on the *.ovirt.org domain. We can accomplish this technically under your suggestion, with a server you (and others?) run at e.g. forums.ovirt.org. Doing that could be really cool. Part of that commitment would be in working with the Infrastructure team here. We want to all share expertise and skills to create web services for oVirt that are safe, secure, and easy to use. One other thing to consider is waiting for the web interface improvements to Mailman. That let's us build on our existing systems and doesn't risk attention split and confusion. However, it means waiting until we can at least run the beta code from Mailman. There are going to be a bunch of improvements to Mailman that are going to provide a true web front-end for it. You can see Máirín's design thoughts in these posts[1]: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/02/29/7750-pixels-of-mailing-list-thread/ http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/03/13/mailman-brainstorm/ http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/03/14/mailman-brainstorm-2/ Some of that work is going to happen over this summer in a Google Summer of Code project, and some will happen alongside/beyond that. If we're interested, I know the GSoC mentors and maybe we can arrange to be direct participants in using the new code as it's being built. - - Karsten [1] Entire category: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/category/fedora/mailing-list-improvements/ - -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture & Leadership uri: http://communityleadershipteam.org http://TheOpenSourceWay.org gpg: AD0E0C41