A quick Suggestion: I think that gossamer-threads.com/lists has the best mailing list archives out there, but I'm not sure what is involved in setting that up. The only info I can find on the site is to email lists@gossamer-threads.com for more information. Since I'm only a lurker on this project I don't think I would be the best one to do this... I do think we need to get an archive and a FAQ up quickly (which I would love to get involved in, but I assume we are waiting for the new wiki) because it seems that every new person who posts is asking the same couple of questions.
I think making the archive available so that search engines can reach it would be useful.
A search on Google for "roundcube javascript error" should find matches in such an archive and allow people to resolve their problems quickly.
On 10/13/05, Jon Riddle list@jdrnetworking.com wrote:
As Geuis pointed out, there is no link to an archive. What would be really nice is if previous mailing list messages could be imported into the forum, assuming they still exist somewhere...
Jon
Hmm.. you might wanna check the mailing list archive before doing
that.
Actually, I'm not sure if there is a mailing list archive, and in
that
case, I can understand your actions.
Point is, there has been extensive discussion on how to handle project communication, so I highly doubt that those involved are just going to start using your forums 'just like that'.
But this seems to be a very friendly list (been monitoring since it started), so I'm sure any input you give will be appreciated.
Jeff
Geuis Teses wrote:
Mailing lists are a very inefficient means of communicating on an open-source project.
I've setup forums for RoundCube at my website. I am *more* than
willing
to let these be permanent for the project.
Link to the forums is here:
http://forums.thetechgurus.net/index.php?c=5
There are 3 forums as of now: Discussion, Coding, and Bugs.
I would like the developers of this project to contact me also so
that
we can further discuss intergrating the forums into the main project webpage.
-Geuis Teses
-- Brennan Stehling : http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/