oVirt Forum Pilot

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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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
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