[maemo-community] Brainstorm: useful?

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:

>> A mailing list can be a powerful to brainstorm about one topic. How much
>> an you scale before it collapses, though?
>
> I find it hard to believe that an unthreaded forum can better scale, though.

Right. In a mailing list, it takes a few seconds to see "what's going
on". On forum, you have to click around for a long time (to the extent
that you may not bother to do that in the first place if your schedule
of tight [read: actual developers may never see it]).

Mailing list + "consolidation wiki page" summarizing the current
status / viewpoints would be optimal, provided that someone takes
responsibility of doing the wiki updates.

Also, it seems forums have a much worse S/N ratio than mailing lists.
I don't know what causes that exactly.

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Ville M. Vainio
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