Geuis Teses wrote:
Mailing lists are a very inefficient means of communicating on an open-source project.
Hello Geuis,
The roundcube mailinglist is efficient at the moment for exchanging ideas, testing patches etc. Developers don't want to check a forum every 5 minutes to see if a new reply has been posted, THAT is inefficient :)
Mailinglist are common for open-source projects to coordinate development etc.
There are various means to communicate with eachother. Once Bob/Thomas open the Trac setup we can use the Wiki as well which should work better than topics of a forum.
There is also a Roundcube IRC-channel at Freenode network, it's called #roundcube. Freenode hosts quite a lot of (official) developers IRC-channels like #debian, #phpbb, #drupal-support, wordpress, #svn, #trac etc.
I've setup forums for RoundCube at my website. I am *more* than willing to let these be permanent for the project.
*chop* Thank you for your help and I know you're not the only one who would like to help the RoundCube project. But I doubt if there is a need for a forum, given the other replies to your mail..
Regards,
Jasper