I actually prefer forums because there's less of a barrier to get started. I can continue working through my browser, and I don't have to setup a message filter.
Even if there's not a forum where developers participate, but just a forum on winehq for users to help each other, I think that would be much better than no forum. More users have experience with forums than mailing lists, so it's much more likely they'll sign up.
Rolf Kalbermatter wrote:
Lionel Ulmer [mailto:lionel.ulmer@free.fr] wrote:
The problem is that (AFAIK) most if not all Wine developpers do not share at all this view (at last for me nothing beats either a mailing list or a newsgroups :-) ).
So you will have a nice forum full of Wine questions and no developpers who read them to answer the posts because no-one will care actually reading the forum.
I may be wrong though thinking that all other Wine developpers are 'dinosaurs' like me :-)
While I'm not a very active Wine developer, but participate in other projects as well, I myself also prefer mailing lists. I can read them offline anywhere I want without needing an online connection. It allows you to do research on the question and prepare an answer offline as well. Forums are more interactive but that is in this respect also their biggest drawback. I did newsgroups in the past for a forum that had a news link but some changes to that gateway made the newsgroup less and less usable.
Rolf Kalbermatter