[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Steve Ebersole]

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 at hibernate.org> 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 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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