[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Vlad Mihalcea]

Interesting thoughts.

In last 6 days we got 24 questions about Hibernate and around 30-40 spam
messages.
That's why I think it's good to have that option enabled, otherwise the
forum will not look professional at all.

Once a user has been accepted, any new post will propagate automatically.
So it's just a one time thing for every user of this forum.

Vlad

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > I also think we should keep the forum it's a way to reach the actual dev
> > team. On SO, you get answers for the community.
>
> I am confused. Is the whole forum not about community as well? I would
> assume that
> there are many questions which are discussed and solved by the community
> itself w/o
> any interaction of the dev team.
>
> Also, there is no reason why the Hibernate team should not be reachable on
> Stackoverflow.
> In fact, I am ourdays exclusively on Stackoverflow, because it imo ways
> superior to
> our (technologly) outdated forum.
>
> Also, Stackoverflow actually introduced now a new "feature" called "Teams"
> -
> http://stackoverflow.com/teams. Seems to be a good time to discuss
> whether we want to
> create a Hibernate team or maybe even project specific teams or whether we
> have no
> interest at all in this.
>
> The only problem I see with Stackoverflow is that some discussions which
> are occurring
> on the Forum are not suited for Stackoverflow. In these cases the
> discussion should be
> moved to mailing list, JIRA or IRC (depending on the circumstances).
>
> > So both the forum and SO are important and we should blend them, rather
> > than pick one over the other.
>
> I don't think I would sign this statement in this form ;-)
>
> --Hardy
>
>