rfc: Bazaar forums

[Martin Pool]

stevea suggested the other day that we might look in to setting up
some Bazaar web forums, along the lines of <ubuntuforums.com>.  I can
see a couple of benefits: some users may be more happy in that medium.
 Also, if you find something relevant in a web search it is easier to
reactivate it in a forum than on a mailing list.  They do seem pretty
popular these days.

There is a risk that unless some of the more active and knowledgeable
people monitor it, questions would go unanswered, though hopefully one
would eventually get to a critical mass where at least there were
enough people there who could answer the common questions and send
real bugs to the bugtracker or list.  It can already be annoying or
disruptive to some people when conversations move between the bug
tracker, list, etc, and this would be another place they might start.

And there is a cost in the effort of setting it up and ongoing
maintenance (like deleting spam, probably), but I am hopeful that at
least some of the former could be done by Canonical IT.

So, what do you think?  Would you read or use such a thing?  Do you
know of potential or current Bazaar users who'd be happier on a forum?

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>