http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13517
--- Comment #6 from Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca 2008-05-30 19:37:36 --- What about consolidating on Google Groups? I see this as having several advantages over the current situation, with an overall win/win outcome.
Addressing the original bullet points in this bug:
* Forum interface correctly formats replies "email style." It doesn't encourage ideal quoting habits (ie, conversational, aka interspersed, quoting), but at least Jeopardy-style quoting is better than nothing. Quoting (among other things) could be addressed in the group introduction. No more mystery replies on the mailing list side.
* Threading is 100% consistent between the forum and email. No more broken threading on the mailing list side.
Additionally,
* the integration between the webforum version and the mailing list version is seamless, and works with new and existing Google logins, and a features familiar forum interface consistent with other web forums.
* nothing to patch, no wonky gateway to maintain.
* forum and mailing list maintenance gets a unified interface.
Given that the project is part of the Summer of Code, it's seems fairly obvious there isn't a conflict of interest by using Google Groups. Everybody wins.