[mb-users] A ML... and a forum!?

[Joan Whittaker]

Here I find myself in total agreement with Chris and consider Robert's
remark that they exist to silence the people who kept "hounding" him to set
up forums to be somewhat elitist.  

The forums are easily accessible to all users and the various threads are
quite clearly marked, which is not the case with the mailing lists AND you
don't get "spammed" (even though I have subscribed to the mailing lists, I
do not necessarily want to see, nor am I interested in, every little thing
that is entered on users or style).  With the forums I can pick the subjects
in which I have an interest.

By all means keep a list for developers and such, but as Chris says style
issues should be open to all.

Joan


-----Original Message-----
From: musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org
[mailto:musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Bransden
Sent: 05 December 2006 00:03
To: General discussions about MusicBrainz
Subject: Re: [mb-users] A ML... and a forum!?

On 04/12/06, Robert Kaye <rob at eorbit.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:32 AM, mll wrote:
> >
> > 1. do they have different functions?
> >
> > 2. If they don't, which one is bound to disappear - in MB we all
> > hate dupes
> > of course. ;)
> >
> > 3. If they do, what's the fine line between them?
>
> In my mind the exist to silence the people who kept hounding us to
> set up forums. :-) I could do without them, because I am an old fart
> used to reading command line news with rn back in the day -- mailing
> lists are awesome.
>
> Problem is that there are lots of people out there who are
> intimidated with mailing lists and prefer to read forums.
>
> The general idea, and I agree its a bit vague, is that general topics
> for helping people edit the database and general questions should be
> posted to the forums and more detailed discussions such as suggestion
> new features, dev topics or style issues should be handled in their
> respective mailing lists.

fine with dev topics staying on the lists (real dev stuff not just
general project ideas), but style discussions should be open to all
users of musicbrainz, otherwise any decisions we make won't be worth
anything. they're already cropping up on the forums anyway, but still
:)

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