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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:07:47 +0000 George Prowse |
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<cokehabit2003@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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| We have some developers who use the forums a lot, like the ones i |
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| pointed out to you earlier. I can imagine that one of the main reasons |
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| that developers dont use the forums is that they prefer to spend their |
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| time developing their Gentoo projects while others find the time to |
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| help those who need it on the forums. |
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Perhaps you should ask, rather than imagine. For at least some other |
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developers I've asked, this isn't why they avoid the forums. |
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| That has been noted and Ian! is building a new search function from |
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| scratch. Other things that would possibly help would be the ability to |
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| exclude forums from the search and perhaps splitting some of the |
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| forums up. |
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And being able to tag a thread with a package name... |
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| Perhaps if you treated people with a little more respect then they |
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| would have some more for you. If you have a complaint take it up with |
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| devrel, you are in the correct place. |
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Eh, easier to just not use the forums except when someone points |
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something out to me. |
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| > Neither of these answers will, on its own, be enough to help you |
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| > solve the "not enough developers on the forums" issue. Nor will it |
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| > help if you claim that "the forums are fine as they are". Why not |
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| > try finding out from other developers why they think the forums are |
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| > not fine? |
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| Why bother when we have you to speak for all developers? |
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Do you think that that attitude will help get more developers onto the |
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forums? |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |