Re: [smarthome-dev] Deprecating the Eclipse Forum

[Markus Rathgeb <maggu2810@xxxxxxxxx>]

If the Eclipse Foundation won't host any modern forum software...
isn't Google Groups still better then using Github issues?
What has been the pains using Google Groups for openHAB?


2017-08-08 12:41 GMT+02:00 Kai Kreuzer <kai@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>>  a mailing list with an web frontend
>> Or let's use Google Groups
>
> Well, we already have a mailing list (smarthome-dev and we could create smarthome-user, if we would want that).
>
> But imho mailing lists are not a replacement for a proper forum wrt categorizing, browsing and searching content.
> From my experience, it was a HUGE step forward for the openHAB community to move away from Google Groups to Discourse.
>
> If the Eclipse Foundation won’t host any modern forum software such as Discourse, I would rather prefer using Github Issues, although not ideal either.
>
>
>> On 8. Aug 2017, at 11:00, Markus Rathgeb <maggu2810@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> What about a mailing list with an web frontend like this one:
>> https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Or let's use Google Groups
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