Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Who's going to promise this - Forums Fubar Author: Ed Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18047,19792#msg-19792
A few thoughts on this thread - since starting it I have been happy to see it (and others) in my inbox - thx all. I think people underestimate how transitory everything is on the Internet, and a lost link shouldn't be lost knowledge. ok so much or the pontificatin' 1) Google groups has an unfortunate reputation for spam - although a closed private domain list may not have that problem. I have used Google Apps (paid version) on several projects but I don't remember if being a paid member of the domain is required to participate in its Groups - I'll check on that. 2) opensource Projects have used email lists forever as a repository of knowledge, project on-ramp, and key decision making forum. Forums are good for the first two, but lack the reach a new email response gives the latter. So, I think it would be a good thing to keep the email list. 3) If you want to build these threads into an Information Asset, you might want to look into SIOC - a Semantic Web ontology designed for that very task. http://sioc-project.org/ I think the easiest way would be to have the lists and the forums - and have all posting to the Forums pushed on to the lists - the round trip is problematic and worth it for quoting important email responses to get them into the forum - but otherwise I would look into a SIOC based solution that pulls from both the forums and lists to create a Cfengine knowledge base. sorry about the kitsch subject - Ed _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
