* Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> (Sun, 31 May 2015 13:52:04 +0200): > I have to revise my claim "it _absolutely_ doesn't belong to the > comments". I guess it's ok to ask some usage questions by a comment > too, but as already pointed out, less people might notice a comment > and to many usage requests by a comment would be bad.
Ah, I thought it was a question specific to that piece of software and I suggested to use the comments for that package (I suppose at least the package maintainer reads comments). I think questions regarding packages may be appropiate here, but if all users from all packages start asking questions about packages here, I fear the mailing list will be cluttered with lots of messages about software only a few people actually use. Of course these are only my € 0,02, I'm in no way a list moderator or prescriber here. > Questions regarding software from AUR are unwanted on Arch general, so > in the past several subscribers send requests regarding usage of > software from AUR to AUR general. Indeed, questions about AUR (= unsupported) software should not be asked in the general mailing list. > Users could subscribe to each mailing list of the software they are > using, but then we need to subscribe to hundreds of mailing lists. And that's why comment discussions feel more appropiate to me: only users of the software are notified. Actually, I might be more responsive to comments, as they are delivered in my general inbox, whereas mails to mailing lists pop up in several submaps. Best, Marcel
