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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Vesa Solonen wrote:
> It seems that threading got messed last time. I beg your pardon for that.
>
> I'd like to ask your opinions about the possible change to SF.net mailing 
> list. The reasoning follows. First of all Yahoo does hide attached patches 
> from freeview and that is really bad, because unregistered can not access 
> them which means less discussion and less participants to the development.
>
> Archives. They are way better usable on SF than Yahoo. Naturally that's 
> not of merit to seasoned developers, but very valuable for woud be 
> developers who need to study old stuff throughly.
>
> UI. That is somewhat imho, but the fact is there is more screen estate for 
> the subject and way less advertising on SF than Yahoo. Browsing messages 
> is also faster and one may choose page layout freely on SF.
>
> Bloat. Yahoo adds too much marketing crap to the messages. Yes, SF puts a 
> notice along too, but it is subtle and shows good taste.
>
> For example I suggest visiting gEDA achives, which are really fine.
> http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/Dec-2008/msg00012.html

Interesting discussion. Lets continue it. Your example does not point 
to a sourceforge mailing list, so it weakens what might have been a good 
point, or at least it does not strengthen it.

Someone suggested using Tracker, which dove tails revision control with 
mailing list type postings. I think tracker complements subversion.


I have never used it, but I wonder if we should look into that and see 
if we can find a site to host it. I may be able to offer solution on 
hosting, but I want to take the path of least resistance if we can.

My point being, if we are going to invest effort in a change, we should 
find the best solution for our efforts rather than revisiting the 
decision down the road.

Dick