oVirt Forum Pilot

Thu May 10 05:54:47 UTC 2012

On 05/10/2012 03:07 AM, Eli Mesika wrote:
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> ----- 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 ;) )

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>>>> 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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