Does anyone else think that the primary medium for discussion concerning boost should be a forum such as IPB or phpBB, rather than a mailing list? I have a library that I want to contribute so after some time digging around boost.org I hopped on the mailing list here, but I really can't following any of the discussions, the people involved, or the formal process for submitting a new library. Is it just me?
Emery De Nuccio wrote:
Does anyone else think that the primary medium for discussion concerning boost should be a forum such as IPB or phpBB, rather than a mailing list? I have a library that I want to contribute so after some time digging around boost.org I hopped on the mailing list here, but I really can't following any of the discussions, the people involved, or the formal process for submitting a new library. Is it just me?
Don't know. Here's the submission process in case you missed it: http://www.boost.org/more/submission_process.htm We have a wiki if you want to do something there, but really the mailing list works pretty well for discussion :-) Jeff
Emery De Nuccio wrote:
Does anyone else think that the primary medium for discussion concerning boost should be a forum such as IPB or phpBB, rather than a mailing list? I have a library that I want to contribute so after some time digging around boost.org I hopped on the mailing list here, but I really can't following any of the discussions, the people involved, or the formal process for submitting a new library. Is it just me?
Have you looked at the link: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel on the page http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm#main. I much prefer newsreader access to forums. I don't know what IPB or phpBB are. Jeff
On Mar 7, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Emery De Nuccio wrote:
Does anyone else think that the primary medium for discussion concerning boost should be a forum such as IPB or phpBB, rather than a mailing list? I have a library that I want to contribute so after some time digging around boost.org I hopped on the mailing list here, but I really can't following any of the discussions, the people involved, or the formal process for submitting a new library. Is it just me? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/ listinfo.cgi/boost
It is also much easier to miss related msgs in different fora/topics you don't subscribe to. My mailer threads and I pretty much ignore threads I know I don't care about, or simply skim. Mailing list does have its advantages. And I get it on my blackberry... Nah, simple mail and in plain text works best for me :) -- Herve
Emery De Nuccio wrote:
Does anyone else think that the primary medium for discussion concerning boost should be a forum such as IPB or phpBB, rather than a mailing list?
Personaly, I have Web forums, they are pretty far from user-friendly (and what the hell we would need smiles support? ;-)) IMHO, I believe a regular mailing is best choice. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net
On Thursday 08 March 2007 02:01, Emery De Nuccio wrote:
Does anyone else think that the primary medium for discussion concerning boost should be a forum such as IPB or phpBB, rather than a mailing list?
I don't. With a bad mail client you won't see a difference, but with a good one it's lightyears away. Also, every forum has a different interface and I don't want to adapt my workflow to several different forums.
I have a library that I want to contribute so after some time digging around boost.org I hopped on the mailing list here, but I really can't following any of the discussions, the people involved, or the formal process for submitting a new library. Is it just me?
My guess is that you simply have a crappy mailclient. From what I can tell, you are using gmail via a webfrontend, right? About that, I have to tell you that this is probably not the right tool for handling a few hundred messages a day. The particular problems I perceive are threading (dunno if it's present in gmail) and the browser-latency (I would get insane if it took me more than a second to switch to a different message). As a workaround, others already suggested the gmane news-to-mail gateway. Usenet clients usually don't suffer above problems (provided you don't use the one provided by google, which is ... err ... not so good). Uli
On 3/7/07, Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de> wrote:
My guess is that you simply have a crappy mailclient. From what I can tell, you are using gmail via a webfrontend, right? About that, I have to tell you that this is probably not the right tool for handling a few hundred messages a day. The particular problems I perceive are threading (dunno if it's present in gmail) and the browser-latency (I would get insane if it took me more than a second to switch to a different message).
I regularly parse all of the boost mailing lists via the gmail web interface. For me, it handles threading adequately, and there is no perceived latency (most days) when opening mail. I much prefer the mailing list format. Jon
On 3/8/07, Jonathan Franklin <franklin.jonathan@gmail.com> wrote:
I regularly parse all of the boost mailing lists via the gmail web interface. For me, it handles threading adequately, and there is no perceived latency (most days) when opening mail.
Agreed. I find that any slight delays from gmail's web interface are more than compensated for by the lack of startup latency from downloading a few dozen emails I'm not going to read. The keyboard controls in it are sufficient to quickly allow me to archive the messages I won't read, and the interface is sufficiently responsive. ~ Scott
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