Ubuntu-Au Forum

[Tony "H.G" Candito]

Choose a CLI friendly forum so it looks like I'm hard at work while I'm
browsing forums, and I'll be happy.
I don't suppose anyone knows of any that are actually built to be CLI
friendly? or even _for_ it?

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at dhanapalan.com>wrote:

> 2009/10/19 Dave Hall <dave.hall at skwashd.com>:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 19:29 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> >> 2009/10/18 Dave Hall <dave.hall at skwashd.com>:
> >> > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 17:35 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> >> >>
> >> > That is why I proposed the compromise plan - use a forum with a mail
> >> > interface and link it to the relevant lists.  It would also allow us
> to
> >> > make more lists available to Australia ubuntu users.  FUDForum is
> >> > capable of doing this.
> >>
> >> But we already have a compromise plan: a list with multiple forum
> interfaces.
> >>
> >> That gives us:
> >>   * an e-mail list, professionally and reliably administered by
> >> Canonical (lists.ubuntu.com)
> >>   * forum-like interfaces through Google, Gmane, etc.
> >>   * a centralised and reliable store of message archives
> >>   * other archives around the Internet
> >
> > All of this remains
> >
> >>   * no burden of administration on any community member
> >
> > Someone has offered to admin it.
>
> "Someone"
>
> Do we have certainty that this service will continue for the long
> term? Will it have the same level of reliability and performance as
> using Canonical's servers?
>
> Can we trust a proprietary service? At least with Canonical there is a
> degree of trust.
>
> >> Another key question is who will own the posts. I don't want my posts
> >> to be owned by some unknown entity. I can post to lists.ubuntu.com
> >> with some assurance that they'll do the right thing with regards to
> >> rights. Even if they don't, my messages are still mirrored around the
> >> Web.
> >
> > As it interfaces with the lists, it will be the same as now.
>
> I still don't see how turning everything upside down will bring any
> benefit. We already have a system that is tried and proven, and there
> are multiple capable Web interfaces to use. Would it make you feel
> better if I called Google Groups or Gmane a "forum"?
>
> If you're so wedded to vBulletin, there's always ubuntuforums.org. Why
> have another?
>
> Based on experience, I can say that this is not something that
> Ubuntu-Au should be doing. It's a lot of work for no gain.
>
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