[mb-users] Re: Bulletin Boards, yet another discussion?! :)

[teknojnky]

I agree with Stefan.

The diehards and/or 'core' users may very well continue to use the list, but 
I suspect the vast majority of users (and *potential users*) to use the (a) 
board, to learn from and ask/answer questions as they arise.

Any modern board would allow the user to 'subscribe' to a forum/thread, 
which would for the most part give the results the same as a dedicated 
mailing list.

Whether or not Musicbrainz has the resources (bandwidth/cpu/disk) and a few 
caretakers to manage the operation  of the proposed board seem to be the 
most important questions to me.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Kestenholz" <keschte at gmail.com>
To: "'General discussions about MusicBrainz'" 
<musicbrainz-users at lists.musicbrainz.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: [mb-users] Re: Bulletin Boards, yet another discussion?! :)


>> On 8/1/06, Robert Kaye <rob at eorbit.net> wrote:
>> > forums: General questions and discussion of edit specific
>> issues. All
>> > issues relating to data discussions and community help for using the
>> > MusicBrainz server.
>> > mb-users: Feature improvement discussions, non MusicBrainz server
>> > issues/discussion/help and all other discussion topics that
>> do not fit
>> > into forums or the other mailing lists.
>>
>> So Picard/MB Tagger user questions should be posted on mb-users, not
>> the forum? Or do I misread this?
>
> Hmm, I think we do not need to create rules (yet) how the forums should be
> used. We should give them a chance, ie set them up, link them prominently
> (important!) from the server and see what happens. My gut feeling is, that
> mb-users, and possibly mb-style might be retired, even. The formal 
> decision
> process could possibly be handled in moderated forums, maybe even with the
> help of the "polls" feature, which is usually available in bulletin 
> boards.
>
> The other, purposed mailing lists will still serve their purpose, and 
> people
> who want do communicate to a certain group of users (ie developers,
> automods, etc.) will still use the mailing lists. The most important issue
> to take care of is, how the subscription process to certain forums works
> (ie. e-mail notification); preferrably, users wouldn't not e the 
> difference
> how the mailing list worked, and how the forums send notifications (for 
> the
> forums a user is interested in.)
>
> Ideally, we would setup an install that uses the moderator names and
> passwords directly from the server, else we'll certainly have to do it 
> after
> the trial phase. It would be most convenient to have those direct links
> between editors and forum users.
>
> regards, keschte
>
>
>
>
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