[kepler-dev] Forum for Kepler?

[subhav mital]

The Website looks fabulous! Its very well organized and good to read.I now
have started to see the advantages of using e-mail for posting! :-)

Subhav

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Christopher Brooks
<cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Agreed, I won't ever check a forum.  I respond to email.
>
> Also, I agree that the kepler-dev and kepler-user archives need
> to be searchable.  Matt was looking into this, but getting the
> website up was definitely of much higher priority (Thanks, Matt!).
> One trick is to create a google group and forward email to the group
> so that it is searched.  One problem is that people tend to post
> to the Google group instead of the original list.
>
> Also, I firmly believe that most support questions should be answered
> with a URL that describes the answer.  I don't always do this, but
> I try.
>
> _Christopher
>
>
> Peter Reutemann wrote:
>
>> Just a suggestion:
>>> Kepler is fun and exciting to use. With the number of users growing
>>> manifold, I think having a forum would make it much easier to navigate
>>> through common problems that people face or have encountered.
>>> Browsing and searching becomes much simpler in a forum such
>>> as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum
>>> The Kepler site does have a forum. How about increasing activity there
>>> and
>>> diverting users to use that actively?
>>>
>>
>> Personally, I prefer mailing lists. Especially, when the archives can
>> be searched (which I sorely miss from Kepler).
>>
>> Here are the archives (you can easily navigate there if you just
>> follow the link to the Kepler mailing list info page that is attached
>> to each post):
>>  http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/
>>
>> The problem with a lot of forums is, that the nice thread structure
>> from mailing lists gets lost and makes navigating quite hard.
>> E.g., if somebody replies to a post, which is not the last one, this
>> will branch off the conversation (using e.g. Thunderbird's
>> thread-based view). In forums you quite often only see one long thread
>> without any structure, even though people reply to other posts than
>> the last one.
>>
>> But that's my 2c...
>>
>> Cheers, Peter
>>
>
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