[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAD/LAU/LAA/Consortium/...

[Dave Phillips]

Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:

> On 1/17/07, Predrag Viceic <viceic at net2000.ch> wrote:
>
>> I didn't pretend that Linuxaudio.org suggest moving to forums. Read 
>> my post.
>> *I* suggest moving to forums as *I* think it's better way to exchange 
>> the info
>> than those 90-tish, Mailman powered, mailing lists where you can't even
>> search for posts or whatever.
>>
>> And apparently I'm not the only one that pretends that:
>>
>> Ardour has a forum: http://ardour.org/forum/15
>> Rosegarden has a forum:  http://www.nabble.com/RoseGarden-f2887.html
>> Hydrogen has a forum : http://www.hydrogen-music.org/forum/
>> etc. etc. etc.
>>
>> WFT?! even glibc has a forum !!
>> http://www.nabble.com/Sourceware---glibc-f12198.html
>>
>> The idea I had in mind when talking about linux audio forums:
>> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/
>
>
> Ardour is a bad example : most of the serious technical stuff is
> either discussed on IRC or in a bug report on the tracker (which leads
> to more tailking on IRC...) 

More to the point: The forums are application-specific, not general in 
nature. The LA* mail-lists are general, non-specific wrt applications 
discussed.

I'm a member of a few forums that are successful, but I don't think a 
forum is the best comm channel for general discussion of Linux audio 
software use and development. IMO the mail lists function nicely now.

Best,

dp