Re: Octave should create a forum

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 30.12.2019 um 22:27 schrieb Nicholas Jankowski:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 14:35 GoSim <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     A real forum, not like nabble which is more like a backup for a
>     mailing list
>     and with a horrible user interface. I think it would be good for your
>     community and would increase activity with more questions and
>     answers and
>     info in general.
>
>     There are free forums for example. It wouldn't work without dev
>     support as
>     moderators.
>
>     There are free forums where you can just register and easily create
>     a forum
>     online, I can do that if there is support. See it as a start, if
>     there is
>     interest and activity an independent forum can be created.
>
>     A good example is FreeCAD which has an excellent forum with a lot of
>     active
>     members. It really elevates the whole thing.
>
>
>
> It is worth pointing out that this is a mailing list, not a forum. 
> Nabble is not the host of this mailing list, it merely archives it and 
> provides a user interface for those not wanting to use email to interact 
> with the group. It even tells you when you post that it is just mailing 
> the list on your behalf.  I.e., my list interface is gmail. The list is 
> hosted at lists.gnu.org <http://lists.gnu.org> (see
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-octave)
>
> Forums can be useful. Seems half the projects I’m with use one and half 
> use the other. Other than easier code and attachment hosting is the main 
> forum plus. Less flexible access is a minus.  And I’m curious, is there 
> a FSF-compliant forum out there worth using?

I found forum time consuming and not effective if you try to follow 
multiple projects or large communication flows.
Of the ~30 projects I follow as cygwin package maintainer, only one
is using forum and it is the least one as efficacy in communication
between the core team and the rest of the community.

Regards
Marco