Google Group?

[joseph]

I'm revamping the Monocle site, wiki and examples for the 2.4 release. Currently I'm thinking of some basic "official" tutorials on the main site, and then opening the wiki so anyone can chip in with tips and tutorials.

The issues list is currently being used as a sort of support forum and discussion space (this is a case in point). I'm wondering if there's enough interest to warrant a Google Group. Any thoughts?

[aronwoost]

+1 on open Wiki

Google Groups suck. Why not stick to github issues?

[joseph]

I take it that's a +2 then? :)

Well, there's a lot of discussion that isn't tied to a particular software issue. This is a good example. Planning future releases and features is difficult this way. But the bigger problem is that you can't subscribe to get an email for all messages on GH Issues — I think?

That said, yeah, I'm not crazy about Google Groups. I would like somewhere I could take a sounding before ripping out an unused API though.

[aronwoost]

Sorry, github on iPhone just doesn't allow me to delete posts. (We will all go crazy when github has a mobile site, right?)

Why is google groups better on having discussions like this? Don't we always end up in a single super-long thread screaming around...? :)

Am 15.02.2012 um 23:29 schrieb Joseph Pearson reply@reply.github.com:

I take it that's a +2 then? :)

Well, there's a lot of discussion that isn't tied to a particular software issue. This is a good example. Planning future releases and features is difficult this way. But the bigger problem is that you can't subscribe to get an issue for all messages on GH Issues — I think?

That said, yeah, I'm not crazy about Google Groups. I would like somewhere I could take a sounding before ripping out an unused API though.

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[joseph]

Well, because it keeps the issues list clean (it's much easier to close an issue as 'fixed' than to close a discussion as 'exhausted'), and because if I create a new issue to discuss something, does everyone get an email?

[aronwoost]

Point taken on the email alert. That might indeed be a use case for having a mailing list.

Still: I find GH issues the best "forums" around. Because it's so feature-less. And because it's so close on the code.

Maybe @github comes up with an issues feature, that allow us to subscribe to certain msgs from the repo owner...?

[danielvlopes]

+1 for the Google Groups or even a Stackoverflow like ember.js. Would be very good to have a place to ask for help instead of pollute the list of real issues/bugs/feature requests with questions.

[aronwoost]

So that's the solution for this issue, right? https://github.com/blog/1204-notifications-stars

[joseph]

I unilaterally took the plunge: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/monocle-js

Let's see how it goes!