Re: [Gretl-devel] Fwd: [gretl:feature-requests] #90 Need help
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Hi devels,
>
> I think this email and the other one from a few days ago indicate that the
> visibility of the mailing lists is too low. Next week I will see what I can
> do in terms of adding some hints/warnings on the sourceforge tracker pages.
>
> But perhaps the old idea to somehow add a forum-like interface is also on
> the table.
I agree, a forum is what people expect to use to ask questions these
days (it's quite ironic, I'm typing this while using pine...).
SourceForce already offers the facility for having one. The scarce
resource is, as always, manpower: I guess that the administration of
a forum should take a few hours a week. Any volunteers?
Granted, we may need to go in that direction. However, I think we
should consider the options carefully. I don't much like the idea of
relevant dicussion being split/dispersed across sites and formats: if
we start up a forum, would we then close down the gretl-users list?
Also, while forums are available on SF I don't think we should
automatically assume that's the best way to go -- if we do go for a
forum. Some of SF's interfaces are good, and some horrible (e.g. their
mailing list interface). We'd probably want to "shop around" a bit
first.
Allin