[jdf-dev] User forums: should we dump them?

[Jason Porter]

+1 for removing the forum

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete Muir" <pmuir at redhat.com>
> To: jdf-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 11:20:06 AM
> Subject: [jdf-dev] User forums: should we dump them?
> 
> One idea I was throwing around last week was whether we should get
> rid of user forums totally. Here's why:
> 
> 1) No one is using the user forum, everyone is using the disqus
> comments
> 2) If you think about what goes into a user forum, it's:
>    * questions
>    * bug reports
>    * announcements
>    * misc other stuff
> 
> If we dig into (2), I think it's fair to say that questions would be
> better addressed by a stackoverflow Q&A approach, bug reports should
> go in the bug tracker anyway, announcements should go in the news,
> or on twitter or blogs, and that I can't come up with any good
> examples of what other stuff there is (and in all honesty, twitter
> probably can cope with the rest of it).
> 
> It's also worth nothing that we can embed a Q&A system nicely into
> pages (e.g. people can ask questions on a specific page) probably,
> which I think will be a popular way to interact, especially if we
> integrate it well with comments.
> 
> This isn't something we can do right now (we need to look at good
> ways to do it) but I wanted to throw the idea out, and see if any
> ardent forum fans come out of the woodwork...
> 
> Pete
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