The StackOverflow Age

Today is a historic day in the evolution of WSO2 community aspect. When we started seven years ago, we were adopting many ideas from the Apache model. Mailing lists was one of the key aspects of that.

However, over the past seven years, we evolved on many fronts. And we were forced to evolve out of the mailing list age too…

This is the FaceBook age. People like it social, interactive, and Web. Mailing lists are old style!

StackOverflow on the other hand is a FaceBook age kid. And people love that. Hence, WSO2 too switched from mailing lists to StackOverflow today.

Here is the note from WSO2 CTO, Paul, on the switch:

Closing down user@wso2.org mailing list (WSO2 Products User List)

Hi

WSO2 is closing the user@wso2.org email list down. Instead, our model is to answer questions on the StackOverflow website which we monitor. This is designed to make our life simpler (only one place to monitor) but more importantly, stackoverflow maintains a much better history, search and rating for answers than a simple mailing list does. The result is that when we (or the community) answer a question, it is much more likely to be found by others with the same issue.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions to user@wso2.org and we look forward to engaging with you on stackoverflow.

We also provide full commercial support for our products and if you are interested please get in contact: http://wso2.com/contact

Thank You
Paul Fremantle
CTO and Co-founder

Lets meet on StackOverflow!