Is there a big complaint? I thought it was just that many people prefer a mailing list to a forum, in the same way that you prefer a forum to a mailing list.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Christopher Painter > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:16 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Improve the WiX mailing list > > A forum instead of a mailing list would go a long way to > solve the problem. While vBulletin is standard out of the > box, I actually like the feature over at the Microsoft forums > where topics can be attributed as a Question and as > Answered. This allows a group of volunteers to see who has > been assisted and who has not. > > BTW, this is one place where I feel that their is a > disconnect between the leaders and the users of WiX. I've > posted over 3,500 times on InstallShield Community helping > many, many people over the years and personally I don't see > what the big complaint is about going to a forum based system. > > > Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Answering questions takes time. Depending on the complexity > of the question and the amount of time available some > questions may go unanswered for a very long time. The only > thing I know to do is to keep doing research and follow up > with your own question with whatever extra research you may > have found narrowing down the complexity of the question > until someone has cycles to answer it... > > I'm answering "community" stuff tonight since I'm home sick > and can't sleep any longer but don't have enough focus to dig > into technical problems. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Riyaz Mogharabin > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 00:09 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Improve the WiX mailing list > > Dear All, > > I hope you are fine and doing well. > > I have a question from you experts about the mailing lists. How can we > manage the WiX mailing list to ensure most of the emails are answered? > > I personally have sent some emails to the group that I'm sure > they have > answers, but nobody has answered them yet, and perhaps will > never answer. > How can we change this? How can we have a guarantee that all > the mails are > answered and if necessary are treated with? (Some of them may > need research > and maybe useful to be added in the next releases.) > > Maybe we can have an index or a list of the emails with no > answers? And try > to answer them one by one? Do not forget that the archive is > a very good > help besides the documentation. > > I hope there are good suggestions for this. > > Regards, > > Riyaz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
