[libreoffice-design] Re: Migrating from Mail Listing to Forum

This is an improvement i would like to see too. I haven´t introduced myself properly in this list 
yet, but i have been following it for some time. Some of the troubles i´ve found were described by 
Paulo José.

Following mailing lists that discuss topics as complex as design issues, where many iterations are 
required, several topic voted/discused, and new ideias thrown to the mix, becomes quite unfriendly. 
Even with current e-mail capabilities to group related conversations, it´s not easy to keep track 
of everything specially when there´s links to everywhere just to show a simple sketch or an 
improved banner or icon.


This is one of the reasons i don´t participate more actively. Just out of curiosity, this is the 
second mailing list i try to participate/follow (sometime ago i´ve tried to join/follow OpenOffice 
art list) but for some reason i still find it too clunky and complicated. For comparison i actively 
post in several graphic/tech forums where it´s by far a much more pleasant experience.


I don´t know the reason why most open source software use mailing lists to keep up the development 
(i´m sure there´s a good one), but for graphic related subjects, where we need to see and work with 
images this seems a somewhat week solution.
Maybe it´s well suited for programmers but it´s definitely not for designers.




-- 
Miguel

On Saturday, 29 January, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Paulo José wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> I know I'm new here and this topic was probably discussed some times, 
> but I wanna know what you think about it now.
>
> The mail listing format is very objective and clear to use. We just need 
> to reply an email to take part in a discussion. But when the discussion 
> grows up, it starts to be impossible don't be disturbed by noise of 
> other discussions and even understand the thread flow.
>
> The forum format is not too simply. You usually need to sign up and 
> login for each participation on a discuss. But as advantage you have 
> more a organized discuss and concise, new features like posting images 
> and attaches, true links, create polls, correct mistakes in your 
> messages, and others.
>
> So I looked up on Google about the possibility of migrate a mail listing 
> to a forum system. Many people talk about the disadvantages [1] on doing 
> it, and how just few mail listing members do login in a forum... All 
> their negative points are related to the differences between forum these 
> two discuss format. Isn't there a way to unify the advantages of both?
>
> There is! Some forum systems that I found actually have support to 
> integrate mail listings, and one of them, called FUDforum [2], has total 
> integration, allowing to the forum archive emails from mail listings and 
> also send the messages posted in the forum to the mail listing [3]! No 
> more need to login in the forum. Is this not great? We could have the 
> both of two worlds!
>
> Along the importing process of FUDforum, is possible automagically 
> create new users (by their email address) and normalize the text of 
> emails (per example, remove the "[libreoffice-design]" signature from 
> the message subtitle). At last, an important thing: FUDforum is /free/ 
> and /open source/.
>
> I personally like the forum format and believe that our productivity 
> would be increased in a power by 2 using it in long discussions and 
> interactive activities, thanks to its advantages. Well, what do you 
> think about it? Is this a possibility to be discussed now?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time!
> ~Paulo
>
> [1] "Moving a mailing list to a forum?"
> http://www.henriettesherbal.com/blog/moving-mailing-list-forum.html
>
> [2] "What is FUDforum?"
> http://cvs.prohost.org/index.php
>
> [3] "FUDforum's Mailing List Manager"
> http://cvs.prohost.org/index.php/Mailing_List_Manager
>
> -- 
> Paulo José O. Amaro
> Computer Science Student
> Federal University of São João del-Rei
> WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior
> Blogger / casatwain.com
>
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