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Bug 316524

Summary:	The "P2 dev" forum does not appear to have an NNTP equivalent
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse-bugs, irbull, pascal, thomas, tjwatson, webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Andrew Niefer

2010-06-10 15:20:21 EDT

The P2 Dev forum http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=32&
does not have a NNTP link beside it in the main forums list.  

When browsing news.eclipse.org with a newsreader, I can not find the p2 forum to subscribe to.

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-06-14 11:29:02 EDT

Well, as far as I can tell there never was a p2-dev newsgroup, only a mailing list.

Do you (p2) want a newsgroup?

-M.

Comment 2 Thomas Watson

2010-06-14 11:39:42 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you (p2) want a newsgroup?
> 

I think we want to be consistent with the other forums under the Eclipse Project forums link (http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=index&cat=1&).  AFAICT the p2-dev forum is the only one without an nntp link.  Many folks in our community have become used to using a newsgroup to interact with our forums.

Comment 3 Eric Rizzo

2010-06-14 11:48:42 EDT

Most Eclipse projects use the forums/newsgroups for user-level communication and mailing lists for dev discussion.

Comment 4 Thomas Watson

2010-06-14 12:14:54 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Most Eclipse projects use the forums/newsgroups for user-level communication
> and mailing lists for dev discussion.

Good point, we do use the p2-dev@eclipse.org for dev discussions.  I actually did not pay attention to the p2 dev name for the forum (other than it had p2 in the name).  I do think we intend use the p2 forum for user-level communication and perhaps it needs a new name to reflect that.

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-06-17 16:17:30 EDT

So shall I create eclipse.p2 as the newsgroup?

-M.

Comment 6 Thomas Watson

2010-06-17 16:48:36 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)
> So shall I create eclipse.p2 as the newsgroup?
> 
> -M.

I will let Pascal chime in his opinion.  I think the newsgroup would be rt.equinox.p2 and it should be linked (proper term?) to the forum mentioned in comment 0.

I don't really care myself since I have moved to using the web forum instead of a news reader to access the forums.

Comment 7 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-06-21 16:11:25 EDT

Well 'eclipse' is the prefix for all of our newsgroups so that would mean the named would be: eclipse.rt.equinox.p2 .  But we're trying to streamline things which is why I'm suggesting eclipse.p2 .

Pascal, any comments?

-M.

Comment 8 Pascal Rapicault

2010-06-21 21:59:58 EDT

Consistency is good with me for now.

Comment 9 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-06-23 15:26:05 EDT

Ok, I've created eclipse.p2, added the forum and closed the current forum with a notice pointing folks at the new forum.

-M.