[Rdo-list] Suggestion: Notify this list of new forum threads

Kashyap Chamarthy kchamart at redhat.com
Tue Jun 18 04:35:32 UTC 2013


On 06/17/2013 07:28 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 06/17/2013 09:32 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A number of people have suggested that it would be a good idea to have
>> notifications sent by the forum to the rdo-list mailing list when new
>> forum discussions are started.
>>
>> Is this something that list members would be OK with? 

Yes, please, it'd avoid a bit of less 'switching' around.


>> There would be no
>> way to reply to these messages, you would have to go to the forum to add
>> a comment - but it would address the issue of forum threads going
>> unnoticed by list subscribers.
> 
> +1 from me
> 
> We could reply and discuss the message on list, but it just means that
> in order to update the thread on forum, it would require manually doing so.
> 
> But that might not be a bad mode of operation anyhow...
> 
> * forum post question
> * email sent to rdo-list
> * some discussion and back/forth on list
> * resolution/answer posted to the forum (maybe with a link to the
>   discussion details in rdo-list archives)

The above sounds pretty good till we figure a way to reply to those messages ( I don't
know how hard it is, just wishful thinking from me).

Thanks for bringing this up.

-- 
/kashyap




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