[Mageia-marketing] Consolidation of email list and forum mediums

Sun Jan 30 18:29:43 CET 2011

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:45, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2011/1/25 Bradley D. Thornton <Bradley at northtech.us>:
+>>>
+>>> Forums will be implemented as well (on forums.mageia.org), it will
+>>> possibly turn out that they will mostly be used by users of Mageia to
+>>> find support and get together. This is the usual way. So we will need
+>>> such a gateway to the mailing lists, so that forum users are able to
+>>> follow mailing list discussions and we will not have the same split
+>>> between the 2 worlds as at Mandriva.
+>>
+>> Yes this is what I was hoping would be the plan to implement.
+>
+> This is not a plan, these are my individual thoughts.
+
+Just to summarize.
+
+There is no such plan at this time. That's great that some see this as
+an important point and want to help in setting this up. They are
+welcome to provide such a bridge from their side (as this has been
+done already, partly). Or to provide a controlled (packaged, followed)
+way to install this on our side so we can consider it (but that will
+take more time I guess).
+
+But that's not our focus for now.
+
+And for now, the main work/discussion places for contributing to
+Mageia are mailing-lists, in English.
+
+That does not prevent teams (and local subteams) to work in a separate
+place, only that teams reports and decisions should happen on the
+main, central channels.
+
+And forums are not expected to be used for that (or marginally, or
+locally) but to engage with other people on a different level, at a
+different pace.
+
+Our own forums (as soon as they will be up) will be in several
+languages (and there are some already). So facilitating communication
+won't be only a matter of crossing the gap between mailing-lists and
+web-forums, but too of translating views from several locales to
+English (and the other way around).
+
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+