[gobolinux-users] Gobolinux Forum?

[Michael Homer]

On 5/26/07, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/25/07, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (...) If all the developers agree to leave behind mail-list altogether and move
> > on to forum (...)
>
> No way in hell!
Hisham summarises eloquently what I was getting at here. Many of the
people most involved far prefer mailing lists, for the reasons MJ,
Tom, Isaac, and I suggested earlier. They also work out better for
everybody involved.

Now to respond to some other posts:
On 5/25/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> > Even then, there aren't many people in total, so a lot of the time
> > there'll be nobody there for hours, and a forum lends itself to being
> > checked once a day, which only exacerbates the problem. If we decide
> > we can tolerate that, then it isn't a problem. We just have to prep
> > people for it.
> Please, indulge me again - how is that a problem? Forums are not
> IRC-chats - it is not expected that people should clutter there all
> the time just to feel social connection.
When emails arrive I get them immediately, and I could well respond
within minutes. Ditto for everybody else. Do you think that worse
response times would be an improvement?

> > You're right, all these people who gave you a bunch of great software
> > for free really owe you.
> Please, don't put it that way. No one owes me, as well as I don't owe
> them.
"It is the responsibility of developers to help users".

Getting new ideas from other people is always useful, but I don't see
this one taking off in any useful fashion, like I've said. If those
circumstances have changed, it could, but otherwise a forum's not much
use if there's nobody there who really knows what's going on on the
inside, or if those who do are forced to check it manually (and
inevitably, forget). And I don't see a use in degrading quality of
experience for the sake of... well, nothing, really.

magnus joh wrote:
> Lets face it, mailinglists are scary.
How? Everybody knows how to email, and they do it all the time.

I also agree with what MJ, Jonas, and Isaac said, so I won't repeat
their points. If we do end up with a forum, let's at least do it right
this time, but think carefully before we leap into something that's
going to flop.
-Michael