(sorry if this is a double-post, I finger-fudged pretty hard) Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> writes:
> hi, > > To all readers of this exact thread. No, we won't install a forum on > php.net or nowhere else to discuss php.net issues. We have mailing > lists, and it works well. Just to throw in the opinion of someone who lurks this list and rarely, if ever, posts -- it can be frustrating when communities split up their "threaded" communications. Communities with separate forums and mailing lists often end up with the same info posted in differente places, and if you're looking for information, or looking to try to help people, you have to check in a bunch of places -- and that's after knowing what those places are. I can understand the frustration people have over reading lists in email readers, one solution to that is for them to use something that knows how to handle USENET, a sane reader doesn't make viewing giant threaded discussions a pain. That said, it's a little ridiculous to expect people to figure out a new reader or whatever. Luckily, forums are jut a web version of USENET. There are a few existing tools that take a mailing list and mirror it to a web-based forum and vice-versa, and it makes a lot of sense -- different frontends for the same set of data. It might make sense to consider setting up something like groupserver[1] for the existing lists, I'm not familiar with your setup, so I don't know if that would be more pain than it's worth. Footnotes: [1] http://groupserver.org/ -- Jeremiah Dodds blog : http://jdodds.github.com github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode/skype : exhortatory twitter : kaens -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
