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

[Felix Held]

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

coreboot community meeting minutes for February 16, 2017

[ron minnich]

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