[Bug 13517] Forums breaking mailing lists

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13517





--- Comment #6 from Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca>  2008-05-30 19:37:36 ---
What about consolidating on Google Groups?  I see this as having several
advantages over the current situation, with an overall win/win outcome.

Addressing the original bullet points in this bug:

* Forum interface correctly formats replies "email style."  It doesn't
encourage ideal quoting habits (ie, conversational, aka interspersed, quoting),
but at least Jeopardy-style quoting is better than nothing.  Quoting (among
other things) could be addressed in the group introduction.  No more mystery
replies on the mailing list side.

* Threading is 100% consistent between the forum and email.  No more broken
threading on the mailing list side.

Additionally, 

* the integration between the webforum version and the mailing list version is
seamless, and works with new and existing Google logins, and a features
familiar forum interface consistent with other web forums.

* nothing to patch, no wonky gateway to maintain.

* forum and mailing list maintenance gets a unified interface.

Given that the project is part of the Summer of Code, it's seems fairly obvious
there isn't a conflict of interest by using Google Groups.  Everybody wins.


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