Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] Hosting

[Arne R. <ag...@po...>]

Ming Zhang <bla...@gm...> writes:

> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 12:14 -0500, David Nalley wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 08:40 -0500, Ming Zhang wrote:
>> > my concerns:
>> > 
>> > * who maintain it.
>> > * we already have email list, and prefer to using emails. will a forum
>> > add extra benefit or burden?
>> 
>> Forums are ok, IF a group has enough critical mass to keep people
>> visiting. (It requires the user to visit, instead of pushing data to
>> them as a mailing list does.) 
>> I think a better solution than having a 'forum' is to have people take
>> the nuggets gleaned from the mailing list. (ie. the aligning Windows
>> filesystems tip) and putting that on the wiki. 
>> Keeping a forum going is hard work, and really requires some dedicated
>> individuals constantly being there. 
>
> this is why i prefer Wiki instead of forum. i am just too lazy to login
> the forum.

Yep. A separate forum would just lead to duplication and fragmentation (of
support questions etc.) we just cannot handle.

And for those preferring a forum over a mailing list: nabble.com already
provides a forum-like interface to iscsitarget-devel.

Arne