[osdevcon-discuss] [website-discuss] osdevcon mailinglists not listed at discussions page

[Brandorr]

On 8/20/07, Martin Man <Martin.Man at sun.com> wrote:
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Martin Man wrote:
> >
> > Phasing out the Jive forums actually is already in the longterm plan,
> > but not the near-term plan, per the OGB survey done several months ago...
> > See: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=26256&tstart=30
>
> The data there only confirm what I was thinking. Jive forums are not
> used for posting (statistically they generate few percents of the
> content) and while being slow, buggy (breaking threads), obeying
> subscribe-to-post rule, and generating confusion (there are no jive
> forums for all mailing lists), I'm asking again:
>
> Why don't we get rid of them "right now(tm)" ?
>
> I'm willing to do the cleanup if anyone wants to mentor me.
>
> Step #1: replace all links on opensolaris.org/os/discussions to point to
> mailmain archives and mailman listinfo page
>
> Steo #2: add missing mailing lists
>
> Step #3: delete jive from production servers...
>
> am I missing something or am I the only one who wants to have a nice,
> clean and usable webpage for opensolaris?
>
> What additional value do the jive forums bring right now when compared
> to pure mailman?
>
> thanx for your opinions,

My opinion is that you would probably want to host the mailing list
archives, and make them available for search and browsing. (Then
again, this could be waved as they are already archived elsewhere)

I really do think jive does cause more troubles than it resolves. I
also think that mailman can be configured to show a list of all local
lists.

-- 
- Brian Gupta

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