[Gambas-user] Discourse?

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2014, Rob Kudla wrote:
> On 07/06/2014 02:21 PM, J?rn Erik M?rne wrote:
> > bit too ... what word to put? It just feels a bit like using your fist to get 
> > the nail in, when there's a hammer... I came across an open source rails 
> > mailinglist/board type of solution that looks really nice, and it could work 
> > really well for the Gambas mailing list.:
> > http://www.discourse.org/
> 
> I see their pretty web interface, but nothing in their "About" or "FAQ"
> pages about its email list functionality, just that it was a replacement
> for mailing lists.
>

That's what I thought, too.

> I don't really do web forums, myself, and if I did, it
> would amount to having two separate accounts for Gambas since my
> sourceforge address is used for many other lists. Yes, mailing lists are
> 40-year-old technology. The reason technical people still are using them
> after 40 years is that they work and allow for easy archiving without
> depending on the benevolence of someone's web host.
> 
> I would wager that most of us who post, and all of the main Gambas
> developers, are getting this through email clients and not through a web
> interface of any kind (unless it's web mail).

OK, now this thread makes sense to me!

As I see it, it would be a pain to use this list from a web interface like
nabble. Does anybody who seriously follows Gambas actually do that? If so,
the only reason I can imagine is that they don't *know* about the option to
register at SF and in this case there is something going wrong with the
"getting started" pages for Gambas newbies.

If this is not the problem you tried to metaphorise, then please be clearer
as I don't see it. Really. The only bottleneck I experience when working
through gambas-user is my own reading speed.

I myself spent some good days to configure and macro-ify my mail client and
to have proc- and fetchmail play nicely along with it and my mailing lists,
so I'm grateful for every web interface I don't have to use.

No unnecessary delays and virtually no superfluous actions to do (we'd had
both with a board according to my limited experience) -- or what does the
fist in your metaphor stand for? -- if you can teach your programs how to
work well. And with a mailing list you can actually choose what programs to
use and configure them according to your will.

Sorry to react so sharply but no one gets between me and my mail system ;-)
(Especially not at gambas-{user,devel} which I normally read entirely, and
to do that, I got to be efficient.)

Regards,
Tobi

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