As Paul just said, lists.freeswitch.org contains a complete archive of the mailing list. This site is heavily indexed by google.

 

A hint for searching it is when you google use the “site:lists.freeswitch.org” or “site:freeswitch.org” to restrict your google queries. This should return anything in the archive relevant to your actual query string.

 

Have fun!

K

 

From: FreeSWITCH-users [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Paul Zillmann
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:51 PM
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] My 2 cents - online community

 

Hello Fred,

 

I think Google provides a good way of querying the mailing-list, given that the subject-line is good and the content isn't just a random "Hiiiiiiiii - how to solve command"

Many projects in the unix-world including operating systems rely heavily on mailing-list communication. And that one works fine.

Could you state more precise what you mean by an online community board? In my understanding that would be a forum.

 

Some users aren't able to use the search functions in such forums either.

By now I can't see a benefit of an "online community board".

 

Besides the mailing-list you may participate in the weekly conference call and ClueCon weekly.

Aside from that: don't be afraid to ask on the list and try to apply the basic rules you'll find in many online forums: good titles, be respectful, and put some effort into your text.

 

Sincerely,

Paul

 

Am 22.02.2018 um 17:33 schrieb Fred Pettersson:

Look I don't wanna start a fire here and have full respect for the team behind FreeSWITCH.

It's 2018 right? I am talking about Evolution. Why doesn't the FreeSWITCH community have a more up to date online community board? I am talking about the mailing lists, why not use a tool to help the community a bit more and make it grow?

Today I think it's hard to get a view of all the questions/answers and the mailing list archive is not that user friendly. If people more easy can search/browse for answers then less questions will be generated. I don't see a big and viable community as FreeSWITCH deserves IMO and I am certain of getting a online community board will increase the community in that sense. This is one of the first things I look for when getting a new component or trying to find help. I am still a beginner of FreeSWITCH even though I've followed the project for years and I know a community board would help me and most likely others.

It's easy to scope/categorize the content of a community board and to allow certain discussions of possible configuration errors vs bugs etc, as a novice like my self I have a hard time to spot this and when I read answers like "bugs are not to discussed on the list - file a Jira". If you, like me, don't even know if this is a mistake by myself and get this kind of answer I really hesitate to ask.

All I want is the best for FreeSWITCH. What do you think?  

/Fred

 

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