I'm just throwing a thought that came up here; how about a solved issues thingy in the forums? We all know of some issue/question or the other that repeatedly crops up regarding installation or setting a config file or whatever. The forum will just move those threads down out of site. Sure, there is the wiki and the very useful search function, but I know I have not always used them first before going to irc (so far I've not posted here without seaching :) ). If there is some method that it is so obvious people would search there first then it might help (even more obvious than the wiki sign at the top of the page :P ). Maybe a seperate top-level category in the forums with a big "SOLVED PROBLEMS, look here first" sign on it will be effective. We can have someone in charge of this category and if anyone feels that a particular thread deserves to be in it, just pm or mail the moderator in charge. Something like the 'Dust/troll-bin' category, but for good stuff. I know that what I have just written is crude at best, but the thought just popped in my mind when I read Philip's mail. Thanks, ravster.
Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
I'll just also say that the people who favour the mailing list may be being a bit shortsighted. My main fear for promoting the lists too much is that you are just going to get clueless muppets spamming the crap out of the lists with inane rubbish that really isn't worth the attention of the dev team. We can deal with that ok on the forums but far here it is harder, i think. The upshot of that I forsee is the devs retreating even more and using non-public mailing lists, which might not be so great.
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
