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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:33:58 +0000 George Prowse |
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<cokehabit2003@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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| > Perhaps you should consider *why* this is the case. There are |
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| > plenty of changes that could be made to the forums that would make |
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| > them much less inaccessible to developers. |
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| Actually the forums are fine as they are. They are a tried and tested |
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| formula and the main place that those need help go. That alone should |
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| give you an idea. |
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| If you could point out some *actual* problems then maybe we could |
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| suggest some solutions. |
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You've said it yourself. One *actual* problem is that there aren't |
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enough developers posting there. Perhaps someone should consider asking |
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why this is the case. |
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You can have two answers from me for free. These may or may not overlap |
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with what you'll get from other developers. |
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The first is that finding anything relevant amongst all the noise is |
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extremely difficult. The search function utterly sucks (try searching |
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for 'vim', 'fluxbox' or 'ciaranm'), so mostly I only go to threads |
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when someone points me to them via another medium. |
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The second is that the amount of nonsense up with which I have to put |
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from forums users is surpassed only by the amount of nonsense that |
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comes from forum mods (perfect example: the eventual introduction of the |
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unsupported software forum after months and months of refusals and |
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complaints to devrel whenever such a forum was suggested). Compare the |
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average thread on the -user list with the average thread on the forums, |
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for example. The -user list very much conveys the impression that it's |
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there for technical discussion. The forums, on the other hand, is often |
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much more oriented towards getting a high postcount, ricing and seeing |
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who can make the best "Gentoo developers are elitist" comments. |
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Neither of these answers will, on its own, be enough to help you solve |
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the "not enough developers on the forums" issue. Nor will it help if |
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you claim that "the forums are fine as they are". Why not try finding |
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out from other developers why they think the forums are not fine? |
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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 |
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