Re: So, honestly, is GNUStep a viable development option?

[Gregory John Casamento]

Mark,

I, personally, could take or leave forums... I don't care one way or the other. 
  The issue I have with this discussion is that you have yet to show any valid 
and compelling reason to change *beyond* "that's what everyone else is doing."

If you could enumerate some advantages, aside from that, that forums have over 
mailing lists, I would be glad to consider it.

The advantages of mailing lists, as I see it are:

* It actually comes to you.   You always know when there's a new message 
because it appears in your inbox.  You don't need to go and check on a webpage 
for it
* You can easily locate your last read message.  With a forum, you need to 
browse backwards until you find the last read message.
* There tend to be more "help me" messages on a forum.  
(Probably more...)

Later, GJC
--
Gregory Casamento -- OLC, Inc 
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Grice <markjoel60@gmail.com>
To: Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de>
Cc: GNUstep Discuss Discuss <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:49:00 PM
Subject: Re: So, honestly, is GNUStep a viable development option?

Using a forum is incredibly complex?

It is odd how these "incredibly complex" forums continue to be adopted
by virtually every other OS, Language and development system out
there...

http://www.gtkforums.com/
http://www.qtforum.org/
http://www.cairoshell.com/forum/
http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

(I could give you 1000 examples, really...)

And yet I keep hearing from the GNUStep group that forums are
"complicated" , "useless for regular use",  and "terribly time
consuming".

This kind of response leaves me shaking my head and wondering...


On Nov 14, 2007 11:59 AM, Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> wrote:
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> Am 13.11.2007 um 14:37 schrieb Mark Grice:
>
> > 1. Stop the mailing list and put up a forum. That is the preferred
> > method of communication for most people these days.
>
> Perhaps it's the method of communication currently in fashion, but
> Forii are so incredibly complex to handle (compared to a local mail
> reader), you'd immediately get rid of users like me.
>
> There are systems combining a forum and a mailing list, though.
>
>
> Markus
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> Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
> http://www.jump-ing.de/
>
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