Jeff, I can't answer your question, but I think the largest pain point
is when new projects in proposal phase attempt to gather community
feedback using NNTP newsgroups.
I've opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=206201 to
request that new project proposal documents link to the Web interface
of the newsgroups instead of the NNTP group. This should facilitate
initial discussion by allowing it to occur over a plain web form.
> http://www.python.org/community/lists.html
It's funny, because that site
looks like the old eclipse.org site did, back in the Frames days.
Denis
Jeff McAffer wrote:
I am still confused by this thread.
Given the set of web front ends and RSS facilities we have wrapped
around the newsgroups, isn't the whole mailing list/newsgroup/forum
thing
a dead topic? Is there a substantive difference between what we have
and what people here want?
Jeff
Mike Milinkovich wrote:
> I have heard many complaints from many people in many projects for
many
> years.
Many years ago the python newsgroup added a gateway to access it like
a mailing list. Users could choose which way they wanted to access
the list.
http://www.python.org/community/lists.html
The *big* advantage of a newsgroup over mailing lists and news feeds is:
once you register to the newsgroup, you have immediate access to the
history. News feeds typically keep 10 or 20 items. For a mailing list
you either have to wait a while to figure out the type of information
posted on the list or you have to access the archive. Unfortunately,
the eclipse mailing lists archives are not stored in INBOX format. That
is
supported by mailman but eclipse does not use it. Here is an example
of a mailman archive that provides zip files of the archives
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/
None of those options is as convenient as a newsgroup...
Maybe we should create newsgroup access to all mailing lists :-)
Michael
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