Please read: Wine(HQ) needs a reorganization (AppDB, Bugzilla, etc.)

[Joseph Garvin]

I actually prefer forums because there's less of a barrier to get 
started. I can continue working through my browser, and I don't have to 
setup a message filter.

Even if there's not a forum where developers participate, but just a 
forum on winehq for users to help each other, I think that would be much 
better than no forum. More users have experience with forums than 
mailing lists, so it's much more likely they'll sign up.

Rolf Kalbermatter wrote:

>Lionel Ulmer [mailto:lionel.ulmer at free.fr] wrote:
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>>The problem is that (AFAIK) most if not all Wine developpers 
>>do not share at all this view (at last for me nothing beats
>>either a mailing list or a newsgroups :-) ).
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>>So you will have a nice forum full of Wine questions and no 
>>developpers who read them to answer the posts because no-one
>>will care actually reading the forum.
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>>I may be wrong though thinking that all other Wine developpers are
>>'dinosaurs' like me :-)
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>While I'm not a very active Wine developer, but participate in other
>projects as well, I myself also prefer mailing lists. I can read them
>offline anywhere I want without needing an online connection. It allows
>you to do research on the question and prepare an answer offline as
>well. Forums are more interactive but that is in this respect also
>their biggest drawback. I did newsgroups in the past for a forum that
>had a news link but some changes to that gateway made the newsgroup
>less and less usable.
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>Rolf Kalbermatter
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