> > On Sep 14, 2016, at 09:38, Wade Chandler <cons...@wadechandler.com> wrote: > >> >> On Sep 14, 2016, at 09:28, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org >> <mailto:humbed...@apache.org>> wrote: >> >> On 09/14/2016 03:17 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: >>> NetBeans.org <http://netbeans.org/> has forums that mirror the mailing >>> lists (well, not always, >>> sometimes we've had syncing problems). My feeling is that since Apache >>> doesn't support forums, we could simply drop them. No need to convert the >>> forums to mailing lists, instead our mailing lists will need to be moved if >>> possible to Apache's mailing lists, while the forums can simply be dropped. >>> That would be my proposal for this, though some NetBeans community members >>> may differ and indeed it will be good to explicitly list this so that we >>> can track it when moving forward into incubation. >> >> While not a forum in the traditional sense, lists.apache.org >> <http://lists.apache.org/> does offer >> interacting with lists without having to use a separate mail client. You >> just log in via oauth and then read/write stuff :) >> > > Wow…all these years using the Apache lists in some way or another I never > knew about that. That is pretty cool, and I do think it could replace forums. > Certainly users have to get used to anything new. I think the Apache OAuth > button, and the Mozilla Persona buttons, should perhaps be slightly > different. The button itself could read “Apache Commiters Login” with a > sub-link bottom right justified “using Apache OAuth” and “Apache Users Login” > and a sub-link bottom right justified “using Mozilla Persona”; just to make > it more intuitive, but certainly works, and is awesome! I had never used > Persona, but it was easy to setup and get going. >
Hmm, so it seems if I’m subscribed to a list the message goes through without a hiccup, but if not, then it takes a good bit if it will be delivered at all. Does anyone know if you are not subscribed to a list if you can start conversations in other lists from lists.apache.org <http://lists.apache.org/>? Thanks, Wade
