Re: The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

On 13 November 2010 18:49, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> >> Actually, you could be quite surprised on the number of people not
> willing
> >> to use a mailing list, and ready to use web forums.
>
> > I think this is a generational thing.
>
> I'm not nearly as concerned about whether there are forums as about
> having "rogue" forums outside the postgresql.org domain. People could
> misperceive such things as having some official status, which would lead
> to conclusions like "postgres must be dead because there's no traffic in
> this forum". It needs to be connected to the community as a whole, and
> some random guy deciding to create his own forum doesn't sound like a
> recipe for getting to that.
>
> (BTW, if memory serves, this has happened before, with no positive
> long-term results.)
>

Yes, that was at postgresqlforums.com I think, which wasn't very popular.
Not that the guy who ran it wasn't helpful though. I've noticed a similar
problem with MSSQL, various scattered forums around with no sense of a
focused community.

It's a shame that a forum can't act as a front-end for a mailing list, so
signing up to the forum actually signs you up to a mailing list (if you're
not already signed up), but without receiving any emails. Messages posted
to the forum would get sent to the list, and vice versa. And such a system
would need to support cross-posting too somehow.

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