[Facebooker-talk] A few announcements

[Carlos Paramio]

For anyone that could be interested, here is a list of pros and cons I  
find with the Google Groups move:

PROS
- RSS and Atom feeds.
- Ability to join a group without receiving email messages.
- Ability to receive email messages only if they match a particular  
keyword.
- Ability to upload files to the group.
- Ability to maintain group pages in a wiki.
- Ability to look at the members of the group easily.
- Better UI.
- Better search capabilities to use the archives as a Knowledge Base.

CONS
- Group separated from the other services at Rubyforge (I'm thinking  
on the bug tracking system mainly, because the main SCM repository  
seems to be the copy at Github now, and the forums aren't used too  
much probably because people find the mailing list more comfortable).  
Anyway, it seems that the bug tracking system is a little abandoned in  
favor of pull requests at Github, or at least there are tons of  
patches there that never received attention (including a couple of  
ones by myself).
- Lack of support to download the list archives as mbox files (AFAIK).
- The current archive will remain at Rubyforge (is there a way to  
import the mbox files to Google Groups?).

Any others you might been seeing?

Carlos Paramio



El 04/02/2009, a las 15:33, Carlos Paramio escribió:

> Well, there is certainly an archive of messages here:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/
>
> However, I also think that Google Groups has a much better  
> interface, and allows you to belong to a group without receiving  
> emails from it (so you just check it at the web interface, but still  
> are allowed to send messages to the list).
>
> So I vote for +1 for the migration.
>
> Carlos Paramio
>
>
> El 04/02/2009, a las 14:51, Mike Mangino escribió:
>
>> Hey everyone. There's been a lot of activity on this list recently,  
>> which is great to see. People are asking good questions and getting  
>> helpful answers. Unfortunately, the answers aren't archived anywhere.
>>
>> What do you think about moving to a google group so that we'll have  
>> a message archive? I created a Facebooker group at http://groups.google.com/group/facebooker
>>
>>
>> Also, I'm going to spend some time this weekend hacking on  
>> Facebooker. I want to try to clean up some of the ugly internal  
>> bits to make it easier for people to contribute. Let me know what  
>> your least favorite parts are.
>>
>> Mine are:
>>
>> Bootstrap and configuration
>> Adapter loading
>> params[:format]="fbml"
>>
>>
>> Anything else?
>>
>> Mike
>> --
>> Mike Mangino
>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>
>>
>>
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>
>

Un saludo,
Carlos Paramio