New Spring Support Forums are Live

[Colin Sampaleanu]

The Spring team is pleased to announce that the new Spring support forums are live. The forums are available at:
http://forum.springframework.org

The new forum infrastructure will allow support questions to be answered in a more efficient fashion, but with less chance of things slipping through the cracks. Additionally, users may easily search for existing answers to their questions, hopefully reducing effort for everybody.

It is expected that the use of the existing SourceForge forums and SourceForge 'springframework-user' mailing list will be replaced by the new forums, after an initial short trial period running in parallel. We encourage all users to direct support questions to the new forums. While we understand that some users do like mailing lists for support, it is important to realize that consolidating to the new forum infrastructure will reduce duplication, and save time for Spring developers, allowing them to work more on code and documentation. The dev list will continue to be used for spring development.

Note that while a default look and feel is set for new forum users, you may from the preferences page of the site choose another template that is more to your liking. 6-7 template variations have been installed.

Regards,
Colin

[Anonymous]

Terrific! And I have posted the first request... :wink:

[twicet]

Would acegi security be added by any chance? I thought it falls under spring-related category. But otherwise good work for the new forums!!

[cmgharris]

Is there any option to get all messages to a particular forum forwarded by email? There was on the sourceforge forums, and it was a feature I find particulary helpful. That way, I see every message, at least briefly; whereas if I have to go into the forums to see new messages, I probably won't.

[mungoknotwise]

Will you continue to post announcements at Sourceforge? The RSS feed is a very convenient way to keep up with file release announcements and other news.

[smccrory]

Nice - I really like phpPP. Good color selection too :)
Scott

[irbouho]

This is great, keep doing the great job!!!

[khem]

This forum looks better than the old one! ;)

[egervari]

It's most excellent that you guys decided to ditch the very non-user-friendly source-forge forums. Now it's a lot more convenient to post, search, etc. Thanks and props to the Spring team.

Regards,
Ken

[Loren Rosen]

You could use a 'meta' or 'misc' forum or something of that sort, for discussion of the forums themselves, the web site, etc.

[skroah]

phpBB supports RSS. I believe it aggregates the posts since last visit view. This would be useful. I don't think it's enabled though...

[lixin]

congratulations!

I think this is a great forum!

[olorin]

suggestion: put a link back to spring main site on forum page

jan

[Patrick Vanhuyse]

suggestion: put a link back to spring main site on forum page

jan

+1

[Starman]

We really need to be able to watch forums and topics, as permitted by phpBB.

Thanx for the good work!

Starman

[vamsee]

I'm a mailing list junkie, and that's how I feel the most comfortable reading technical discussions. Is there a way (like 'watch this forum' or 'watch all forums') where I can get all the questions & replies by mail?

Of course, I don't have a problem to come to the forum to answer any questions/ask new questions, but there's got to be a way I can read this stuff in the comfort of my mail box!

Anyways, thanks for all the effort.

TIA,
Vamsee.

[alexandrupopescu]

+1 for having forum posts as mail (or at least have a RSS)

[lumpynose]

For me, I don't find forums anywhere near as convenient as mailing lists. With mailing lists I can passively receive the postings that are sent to it. With a forum I have to remember to go to the forum and check.

With a mailing list I'm more likely to be actively involved reading and responding. Not so with a forum.