Re: Forums

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Matthew Wilcox <elvendil@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the things being assumed here is that forums would sit alongside
> the list.
>
> That would never work, they can't have two separate sets of content. My
> point wasn't that we should have a forum as well, it was that we should
> have a forum instead.
>
> And then we began discussing the merits of each approach and discovering
> what the members need any solution to do in order to work well.
>
> Here are the options that have emerged from the discussion:
>
> 1) We ditch lists and go with a forum
>
> 2) We abandon the forum idea entirely
>
> 3) We make or patch a forum which maintains all of the functionality of a
> list, for those that don't want to use the forum's interface.
>
> 4) We adapt the HyperMail software that manages the web-viewable archives
> to become more forum-like.
>

This option seems most attractive. We should just add a forum "front end"
using mailing list as the storage.

- Ryosuke