[gpodder-devel] On the status of the gPodder project

  • From: me at nikosapi.org (Nick Nobody)
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:36:08 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, January 20, 2009 14:02, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Perl <thp at gpodder.org> wrote:
>> what do you think of adding a forum in addition to having the
>> development mailing list. Do you think a forum would help users that
>> are not familiar with mailing lists? I'm happy to read your opinion!
>
> I think some people are forum people and some people are email people.
>
> Unfortunately in my experience the people that have answers are email
> people
> and the people that have questions are forums people.  That's why I ask on
> the
> mailing list first :-)
>
> If there was some way to use a forum software that autoposted both ways?
> The
> problem of course is you tend to split the people that can answer between
> the
> two.
>
> I do think forums tend to be preferred by some, and since gpodder is
> obviously
> trying to appeal to more than just kernel hackers, a forum may well be
> welcomed
> by some.
>
> I dunno if that helped any - but I expressed an opinion :-)
>
> Brian

I could not agree more :)

nick



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