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

[Rafael Benevides]

+ 1 for removing the forum either.

2012/7/2 Jason Porter <jporter at redhat.com>

> +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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