rfc: Bazaar forums

[Staffan Gimåker]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 07:56:26 Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> > So, what do you think?  Would you read or use such a thing?  Do you
> > know of potential or current Bazaar users who'd be happier on a forum?
>
> We already get the occasional Q coming through on Launchpad Answers. My
> initial reaction is that we ought to promote/monitor Answers more if we
> think this medium appeals to some users over a mailing list. It's likely
> that whatever software is underlying ubuntuforums.org is more advanced
> than Answers but I suspect Answers is good enough for our needs, yes?
>
> Ian C.

Nabble (www.nabble.com) is another option for satisfying the crowd 
uncomfortable with mailing lists, did you consider it already?

It solves the problem of dividing the expertise in two camps, since it's just 
a mailing list <-> forum gateway (much like Gmane).

/Staffan