Steven wrote:
I can't speak for Tom on this issue, though I was the one to suggest that he start the forum after the Wineconf discussions regarding the mailing list and newsgroup disconnection.
So you're the guilty party! Next time you decide to shake up the wine community like that, please consider discussing the move with the developer community first.
I think long term we might want to see about just killing the users mailing list if the forum proves to be much more popular. The idea is to have ONE central place for all user discussions.
The mailing list can in fact be the central place, even in the era of web-based interfaces. Killing it would greatly annoy a large population of people, including especially the developers who sometimes help users on the list.
The thing to kill, if anything, is the usenet group; sadly, usenet does seem to be decaying pretty badly.
As an experiment, I've set up a google groups front end for wine-users. It's at http://groups.google.com/group/wine-users/ For this to become real, we'd have to switch the mailman user list over.
Do folks think we should try that? Or do people really think we should kill the mailing list and go to a forum? - Dan