Improving Community Communication
Hello all,
First all thanks on a great job with this system! It seems to integrate the basic CMS fundamentals that most people want these days, and isn't overly complicated. However, there are a few suggestions I'd like to offer on improving community interaction:
That's really it. If this has already been discussed (oops) and if this already exists (oops).
First all thanks on a great job with this system! It seems to integrate the basic CMS fundamentals that most people want these days, and isn't overly complicated. However, there are a few suggestions I'd like to offer on improving community interaction:
- Mailing List(s) - Forums are great, but I think mailing lists have a better work flow as you don't have to navigate through various topics, just post and wait
- IRC Channel - This lets users come in and ask quick questions without having to register for anything. If help is required, I know a good majority of staff members at freenode to help get a channel setup for you
- Trac/Bugzilla - A place for users to post bugs, it also keeps things a bit more organized for developers
- Version Control System - A version control system is nice for patches, etc to be generated, and it lets users know that what they're doing isn't going to be overwritten by some other change someplace. This can also help foster a better security audit
That's really it. If this has already been discussed (oops) and if this already exists (oops).
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6796 posts |
Thank you very much for your suggestions. For the YACS team it is very clear that even if web technologies are central to modern communication, they are not the only way to support highly collaborative staff. Let me add a couple of comments to these :  mailing lists - the challenge comes probably from the fact that people have very accustomized to mail tools. YACS allows for mail-to-web posts, which is great to publish information readily available in mailboxes. YACS allows also for the bulk transmission of mail newsletters, to incentivate people to come back to the site. For the future, we are looking for a good NNTP-to-web package, because newsgroups may be more handy than mail messages on the long run. IRC - feel free to install any IRC server you like on your YACS server. At lest, YACS lists IRC addresses published at user profiles. YACS also supports other popular messengers, such as ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, etc. Trac/Bugzilla - at some point we will do that, definitely Version Control System - this will also come in the future, even if our aim is to push a single set of powerful scripts as far as possible
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Posted by ChrisWhite on Apr. 25 2006, commented by Bernard on Apr. 25 2006, (popular)
