On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Russell L. Carter <rcar...@pinyon.org> > wrote: > > One complaint I have about the FreeBSD project, is that the core > project contributors and developers rely too much on > e-mail for communication. This certainly works, and I use it too, but > new and casual users getting into FreeBSD > may get lost in the maze of FreeBSD mailing lists. It would be nice > if more of the core project contributors > used the web forums ( http://forums.freebsd.org ), since stuff like > that shows up nicely in web searches, and it is easier > for newcomers to find stuff, and jump in and contribute to threads, > versus mailing lists. > I just noticed this: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/new-forums-software-online.48495/ The FreeBSD Forums Administration team just upgraded the forum software from phpBB to Xenforo. They migrated 260,000 messages......wow, this is a huge achievement! Xenforo is nice stuff, so hopefully more FreeBSD core developers can take advantage of the forums, in addition to the traditional mailing lists. -- Craig _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"