Re: [coreboot] coreboot community meeting minutes for February 16, 2017

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

> what I've found on u-root and harvey is once we had slack, the mailing

list dropped to almost zero. Key word being almost, we still
> use the mailing list for archival announcements.

http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Why I always feel that you have outdated ideas? You tell me?! ;-)

Peace, Bro',
Zoran

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:55 PM, ron minnich  wrote:
> what I've found on u-root and harvey is once we had slack, the mailing
> list dropped to almost zero. Key word being almost, we still use the
> mailing list for archival announcements.
>
> ron
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:34 AM Felix Held 
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > > coreboot is evaluating the idea switching from the mailing list to a
> > >
> > > forum package.  A poll on this will be posted shortly.
> > > Switch to reddit?
> > > Switch to google groups?
> > > Look for a forum software package that integrates well with the
> > >
> > > mailing list.
> > > Skepticism was expressed about ditching the mailing list.
> >
> > I think dropping the mailing list for some forum would be a really bad
> > idea. The mailing list is organized as a tree and most forums only
> > support linear threads which get confusing very easily. Some forum with
> > tree-structure (the code or reddit is open source, but i'm not sure how
> > difficult it would be deploying an own installation of that) would be ok
> > from that point, but i still see some possible problems in regard to
> > archiving stuff there, since most of the data formats there will
> > probably ways less portable than a mailing list archive.
> >
> > Regards
> > Felix