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<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/5933>
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