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George Prowse wrote: |
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> Well, i'm not sure if this list is working because I have not yet |
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> recieved any emails from it but... |
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> What ideas do people have for improving relations? |
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(Resend, apologies if this appears twice) |
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What about making more use of the announce list? At the moment it's only |
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ever used for GLSA's, which from talking to a few people at Gentoo UK |
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and on IRC, most seem to use the utilities for anyway. |
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Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is |
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used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be |
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used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where |
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Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that |
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using the same list for other announcements too would create too much |
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traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to |
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subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see. |
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These lists could be heavily advertised on the forums and in the Gentoo |
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Handbook. |
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To remark on this "we'll only get atypical users responding so we |
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shouldn't ask at all" view, that's just silly. In my view, open source |
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is about community, and if people don't speak up then that's just their |
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choice. Why should everyone suffer just because some people don't want |
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to interact? |
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Surely developers can weigh up the feedback they get and decide for |
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themselves what might be atypical and what might be useful? And I think |
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that if you do it right, word will spread and more people will respond |
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over time. Sure, you'll never get everyone, but that's life. |
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Have you considered that many users may currently believe that there |
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aren't any ways they can communicate with developers generally? Or even |
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if they do know about IRC and mailing lists, believe that the developers |
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don't want to hear what they have to say? |
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On that note, an idea to get more users involved: What about scheduled |
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developer chats with specific projects where users can openly ask |
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questions and developers can perhaps give updates on what they've been |
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up to recently? They don't have to be particularly frequent - once a |
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month rotating round different projects or something. |
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Another idea could be to create a specific "developer Q&A" forum where |
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developers can pose questions to the users and perhaps vice-versa too |
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(some sort of moderation system for questions from users might be |
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required, and yes it would require work, but doesn't anything that |
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involves interacting with users?) |
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AllenJB |
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