On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Christian Lohmaier < lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joel, *, > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 09/27/2012 05:11 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> wrote: > > [...] > Not sure wether I like the creation of an off-topic area right from the > start... > I'm willing to discuss but ultimately my stance is I am in favor of off-topic immediately. It helps give a sense of "just a place to come and meet other FOSS people", also no reason to be strictly business right from the start. > > > [...] > >> For installation related questions, people can be asked in a sticky to > >> prefix their topics with [win] [lin] [mac] (, [sol], [and] [ios],...) > > > > The reality is that most users don't read sticked stuff so asking for > them > > to do certain things in those notes might just be ignored. > > Well - it is a forum, there will be moderators, so topics can be > adjusted if people don't follow the rules by themselves. > More work for limited moderators seems like a bad idea to me if it can be easily solved by separating them. I'm not opposed to having one installation section in theory, but I think the idea of having users put brackets in is just not realistic and having moderators constantly having to change subjects of point out this problem to users is also not realistic. > > In another post Leif suggested a "bugs and errors" section. > I'm strongly opposed to this. Bugzilla is the one and only way to file > bug/error reports. > Everything else is just creating a wrong impression, while in fact > those reports will not be looked at. > Agreed. We had briefly discussed a bugs and errors section and ultimately we decided this wasn't a good idea. If we notice someone posting a thread that is a bug, we'll point them to the bug reporting section of our webpage and let them file a bug. Regards, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibO QA Volunteer jmadero....@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
