oVirt Forum Pilot

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 11:39:42 AM
> Subject: Re: oVirt Forum Pilot
> 
> On 05/08/2012 06:20 PM, Eli Mesika wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- 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.
> +1 - not sure it should replace the mailing list.

Typically:
Users prefer to ask questions and browser on a forum, look through old answers, etc.
Developers tend to work on mailing lists, asking a developer to go looking for questions to answer in a forum won't work.

Forum sounds great only if we can get it bridged to a mailing 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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