-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/2012 07:32 AM, Barry Kostjens wrote:
Hi Guys,
I made a suggestion to Doron Fediuck for setting up a ovirt forum pilot which might deprecate the users list in the future.
The mailing list with its quotes is not easy to read, I myself prefer a forum and I think a lot of people with me.
A forum could be spillted in several different subjects ea: ovirt-enige, ovrit-node, networking, storage etc etc.
Also a forum is much easier to browse (imho) than the mailing list.
To summarize the discussion so far, the concern from the developers is that they won't be able to participate in a web forum. As Andrew said, this seems to be generally true across open source projects - developers prefer email and don't or won't use web forums. Forums work great for user communities where the users are self-supporting. Where users need to interact with open source developers to be successful - and that's where oVirt is *today* - it's better to be in the medium the developers prefer where they can answer questions and solve problems. Until oVirt is at the point where the users can support each other effectively in a web-only forum, one idea would be to have a web-based method to post and read threads on the mailing list. This is something being worked on via a Fedora GSoC project right now, and I'm sure we'll see a final solution come from Fedora Engineering: https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/ - - Karsten - -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Architect team: Red Hat Community Architecture & Leadership uri: http://communityleadershipteam.org http://TheOpenSourceWay.org gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFPqY3u2ZIOBq0ODEERAmBOAKCURDwA9fr6fIwvTFA7QRuQreutIQCcC4Fv 3hSyKVSQ0amAEb4uMvskDxY= =W9hB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----