On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:

Am 20.11.2015 um 16:06 schrieb Allin Cottrell:

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?

Yes I guess so, because you're absolutely right that fragmentation is no
good. (But of course all this is conditional, _if_...)

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.

Yes again. OTOH I have been pleasantly surprised with the ease of
handling and replying to stuff on the sourceforge bug tracker.
Effectively it seemed to me that you can choose whether you answer to
the automated email copy or whether you write on the web page, and the
result is the same. Did you experience any downsides with the tracker
interface -- well apart from the prolonged outage I mean.

I agree, I like the SF tracker interface, particularly once I (too) discovered that you can just reply by email if you prefer.

Allin

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