Re: [hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

If anyone is unfamiliar with Nabble... Here is the Nabble-ized form of this very mailing list: http://hibernate-development.74578.x6.nabble.com/ It looks/works just like a forum. For mailing-list backed Nabble forums it is read-only in effect, unless you also subscribe to the mailing list. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:41 AM Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > You know my thoughts on the forum. I think forum versus mailing list is > just very much a personal preference. Some people really like one or the > other. Why not split the middle and use mailing list + nabble? > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 7:35 AM Hardy Ferentschik <hardy(a)hibernate.org&gt; > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > > So basically I would suggest: >> > > >> > > - Put the forum into a read only mode >> > > - Add a banner explaining the move to Stackoverflow (similar in >> content to what's in the post >> > > mentioned above) >> > > - Create a Hibernate Team on Stackoverflow >> > > - Make sure all Hibernate related tags and wiki pages are up to date >> > > - Add a "Where-to-post summary" to hibernate.org >> > > - Create a hibernate-discussions mailing list!? >> > > >> > > I think we would gain a lot of by this approach. >> > >> > Looks like a solid plan so I captured in >> > https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/WEBSITE-416 >> >> Awesome thanks. >> >> > (even though clearly we need some kind of agreement from more people >> > on such a significant change) >> >> Sure, we need a general buy in into this approach. >> >> > It saddens me to see the forum go though. >> >> Sometimes it is just time to say goodbye :-) Keeping it alive would imo >> just reduce the gained benefits (no need to battle spam, no need to >> monitor >> its service and run database rescue operations, no need to use an old >> fashioned >> UI) >> >> > Shouldn't the forum be the place for such discusssions, rather than a >> > new mailing list? >> >> I think a mailing list is better. >> >> Would be interesting to hear what others think. >> >> --Hardy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > >