Kevin, Mark,
I'm not a Forums kind of guy, and I think there may be a few more out there ... some of them people from whom you'd actually want to hear stuff!
For the sake of these people, I'm hoping that any Forums effort at least has some forum<->email gateway running, so that email-only people will have a chance to take part in the forum discussions. Barring that, it should probably be considered that, while growing the potential community by allowing forum banter, that some folks will never respond to messages that happen to be posted int he forums, just because they'd never see it.
While I am sure that some people wouldn't miss my shiny, happy posts, there are most probably some interesting non-forum people out there, and that's be a shame not to get their thoughts on an issue or two. So I'd advise either a gateway or a warning on the forum pages, but otherwise would throw my hand in with a forums effort that didn't take any time away from the current get-it-all-going kind of work.
- bish
Kevin Francis wrote:
yea. forums would rock
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 03:40, Mark Mealman wrote:
Are there any plans for some sort of official web forums for Fedora like what Gentoo has at forums.gentoo.org?
I know some people prefer mailing lists, but frankly having worked with only having mailing lists with Debian for 5 years and then having both a mailing list and web forums with Gentoo over the last year, I've found the Gentoo web forums to be invaluable.
A weekly newsletter, web forums for casual banter, mailing lists for more hard core work and the IRC channels for instant help I believe have helped Gentoo build one of the most solid user communities around, which in turn has made it one of the fastest growing distributions this year.
I see in Fedora a great technical base and a lot of growth potential, but is its community going to be restricted to just mailing lists and IRC? I think that would be a shame.
-Mark
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