[csw-maintainers] Forum Software

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 11.09.2011 um 12:19 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński:
> 2011/5/26 Trygve Laugstøl <trygvis at inamo.no>:
>> Another option is Shapado [1] which is more or less a stackexchange[2] copy.
>> It's a bit different than traditional forums, but has a very nice
>> "community" thing to it.
> 
> Yes, it looks like a questions and answers kind of thing.  As far as
> asking Solaris related questions, the solaris tag at serverfault.com
> seems do the job already:
> 
> http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/solaris
> 
> Maybe we can take a step back and ask - why do we need a forum?  What
> space do we want the forum to fill?
> 
> My general thought is that mailing lists are generally not very good
> at building user communities.  For developers, they're great, for but
> for users, not so much.  Announcement mailing lists, yes.  But for
> general interest and involvement, forums seem to be more effective.
> The idea would be to lower the entry barrier.  Of course, the same
> thing could constitute a different entry barrier for different people.
> One person will see a forum and say: "Cool, this is the kind of forum
> I know how to use, so let me join it", while another person will say:
> "What? I need to set up yet another account? No way."
> 
> I would like there to be something that people are already familiar
> with.  Also, if anyone is willing to put the time in it and set up a
> forum, I'll be happy with whatever choice they make.
> 
> Some additional considerations could be spam prevention (captchas,
> etc) and general maintainability, something that phpbb does not excel
> at.

What I would like to have is a connection of the forum to the package page
so if you browse a package you automaically see he most recent posts or
post topics or so.


Best regards

  -- Dago