[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Steve Ebersole]

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 at hibernate.org> 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
>
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