On 13 November 2010 18:49, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> writes: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > >> Actually, you could be quite surprised on the number of people not > willing > >> to use a mailing list, and ready to use web forums. > > > I think this is a generational thing. > > I'm not nearly as concerned about whether there are forums as about > having "rogue" forums outside the postgresql.org domain. People could > misperceive such things as having some official status, which would lead > to conclusions like "postgres must be dead because there's no traffic in > this forum". It needs to be connected to the community as a whole, and > some random guy deciding to create his own forum doesn't sound like a > recipe for getting to that. > > (BTW, if memory serves, this has happened before, with no positive > long-term results.) >
Yes, that was at postgresqlforums.com I think, which wasn't very popular. Not that the guy who ran it wasn't helpful though. I've noticed a similar problem with MSSQL, various scattered forums around with no sense of a focused community. It's a shame that a forum can't act as a front-end for a mailing list, so signing up to the forum actually signs you up to a mailing list (if you're not already signed up), but without receiving any emails. Messages posted to the forum would get sent to the list, and vice versa. And such a system would need to support cross-posting too somehow. -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935
