Re: [smarthome-dev] Deprecating the Eclipse Forum

[Kai Kreuzer <kai@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If the Eclipse Foundation won't host any modern forum software…

Well, we can also comment on the Bugzilla issue and vote for having a Discourse forum setup for Eclipse - this would be actually my favourite solution, although I wouldn’t want to push it, if other projects don’t need it and the webmasters want to get rid off the maintanence efforts. And I wanted to first find concensus on what we think is best.

> isn't Google Groups still better then using Github issues?

Not sure. I personally hate the UI, it is pretty outdated and not intuitive or modern. Github would have the advantage that discussions can be nicely linked to issues/PRs and we wouldn’t have yet another tool.

> What has been the pains using Google Groups for openHAB?

I do not recall all details. But it was not really easily possible to categorise posts, nor to check what is new/unread and there is no way to have notifications (just all or nothing). After switching to Discourse, I didn’t hear a single user that would have liked to stay on Google Groups instead…


> On 8. Aug 2017, at 14:16, Markus Rathgeb <maggu2810@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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>:
>> 
>>> 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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