RE: [opensuse] Do we need an official web forum?
Boy, you guys are busy - I can't keep up with the list at this rate. I know I've mentioned this at least a couple of times, and others too, but: why aren't we talking about one forum (not interface, just forum) with three interfaces: 1) regular mailing-list style 2) USENET style (i.e. a newsgroup served by news.opensuse.org or similar) 3) webforum. There are various examples of this out there already, some good, some bad. At linuxprinting.org they run mailing-lists bi-dir gated to a forum. At isc.org they run mailing-lists bi-dir gated to a newsgroup. gmane.org is probably the best-known example of gating mailing-lists to newsgroups (and a web-interface). I personally bi-dir gate all my mailing-lists with a news-server. If the webforum need is only about getting a different interface that less tech-savvy people can better understand or work with, then I don't see a problem. Just get going - it can't be that difficult bolting on a webforum *slave* to the mailing-list *master*. /Per Jessen, Zürich
On 1/26/2006 7:29 PM Per Jessen wrote:
There are various examples of this out there already, some good, some bad. At linuxprinting.org they run mailing-lists bi-dir gated to a forum. At isc.org they run mailing-lists bi-dir gated to a newsgroup. gmane.org is probably the best-known example of gating mailing-lists to newsgroups (and a web-interface). I personally bi-dir gate all my mailing-lists with a news-server.
If the webforum need is only about getting a different interface that less tech-savvy people can better understand or work with, then I don't see a problem. Just get going - it can't be that difficult bolting on a webforum *slave* to the mailing-list *master*.
I think the problem is IF they work properly... OJ -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners."
Johannes Kastl wrote:
On 1/26/2006 7:29 PM Per Jessen wrote:
There are various examples of this out there already, some good, some bad. At linuxprinting.org they run mailing-lists bi-dir gated to a forum. At isc.org they run mailing-lists bi-dir gated to a newsgroup. gmane.org is probably the best-known example of gating mailing-lists to newsgroups (and a web-interface). I personally bi-dir gate all my mailing-lists with a news-server.
If the webforum need is only about getting a different interface that less tech-savvy people can better understand or work with, then I don't see a problem. Just get going - it can't be that difficult bolting on a webforum *slave* to the mailing-list *master*.
I think the problem is IF they work properly...
OK, perhaps that can lead us on to a technical discussion. I know for a fact that a bi-dir setup between a mailing-list and a newserver works really well. I have about 100 mailing-lists gated with my news-server. Given the appropriate webforum software, I see no technical reason why the same thing can't be done with a webforum too. I propose the following : For each forum (categorised by language and/or subject), a mailing-list will serve as the master. That gives us an email-interface right away. For convenience for those of us who are used to USENET, we add a newsserver as a slave and for those of us who like the webforum style, we add a webforum slave. This is very much like what Lars Ingebrigtsen at gmane.org has already done. (I'm perfectly open to letting the news-server be the master instead of the mailing-list, but I don't know how well it works). /Per Jessen, Zürich
Per Jessen wrote:
For each forum (categorised by language and/or subject), a mailing-list will serve as the master. That gives us an email-interface right away. For convenience for those of us who are used to USENET, we add a newsserver as a slave and for those of us who like the webforum style, we add a webforum slave.
this is good. if we can have forum<->news<->mailing list, it's even better (and one of the things possible, not exclusive) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Quelques images: http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html
Johannes Kastl wrote:
see a problem. Just get going - it can't be that difficult bolting on a webforum *slave* to the mailing-list *master*.
I think the problem is IF they work properly...
One thing I forgot to add - if we've now reduced the debate to a purely technical issue, surely Novell/we have sufficient resources to sort it out. And the whole discussion of webforum, official or not, is over and done with. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.
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