Forum proposal

[Tomas Carnecky]

Scott Ritchie wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:57 +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
>> Luis C. Busquets Pérez wrote:
>>> I understand that for some people the mailing list is a far better 
>>> thing. May be for some other, a forum is better.
>>>
>>> Why not trying both systems?
>>>
>> This question has already been answered.. anyway: if you have both a ML 
>> and a forum, you effectively split the community into two parts! Nobody 
>> will be on both the forum and the ML, it will be harder for the users 
>> because they'll have to two places to go to, and it will be harder for 
>> the developers because bug-reports will be posted two two different places.
>>
>> tom
>>
> This just isn't true.  I read the mailing list and check the various
> forums where Wine is discussed regularly.  It's not that difficult to do
> both, since I check my email anyway.
> 

Maybe you, but there are other people who just don't have time to 
monitor both a forum and the ML.
And my point still stands, you split the community up!

tom