[libreoffice-website] Re: jforum and mailing list integration

Hi Florian,

Le 2012-09-13 03:53, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Marc Paré wrote on 2012-09-13 05:29:
>
> > Does jforum allow for the possibility of mailing list integration
> > similar to Nabble? This would allow those who are familiar with the
> > functioning of mailing lists to post of the forums and vice versa with
> > forum users.
>
> while I don't know whether it's technically possible: Is it worth the
> efforts? IMHO, we would end up with the very same problems that mailing
> lists don't support certain forum functions (top-pinning of topics,
> deletion of postings etc.) - this is the reason why Nabble isn't
> sufficient, as far as I know.
>
> Florian

The largest reason for this integration is the clear divide between the 
communication needs of contributors and users. It looks like, in large 
part, contributors like the "fast and furious" speed of mailing lists 
and the requirements for less computer resources, while users prefer the 
organized nature of the forums. Mailing lists users are not that 
concerned with the "bells and whistles" of forums. So, if there is a way 
to integrate both, I don't think that you will really hear of any 
complaints from the mailing list users, they will just keep working 
along as they did before.

If we are to try to join the two groups it will help if we can bridge 
both tools. That being said, there has been talk of some lists who may 
prefer the forums as these provide tools for downloading files as well 
as the other features you mention.

Where we should see gains are in the user-help arena. Forums are easily 
accessible to all, and, as Bjoern pointed out in a recent post on the 
marketing list[1], this could be a very good entry point for users who 
would like to move to more serious involvement in the project and 
contribute.

This will mean that we should plan on concerted efforts at promoting the 
contributor side of LibreOffice on the forums as well as the promote the 
all-important and much needed community building.

I am curious, if we were to keep both mailing lists and forums, would 
this tax our infrastructure negatively? Do we have enough hardware 
resources to handle it?

We should also expect that there will be a natural shake-up of both the 
mailing lists and forums where some lists or forum categories will die a 
natural death simply for the reason that the majority of users will 
prefer one mode of communication over the other.

Cheers,

Marc

[1] 
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/5933



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