On 14.01.2011, at 16:18, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: > On 14.01.2011 13:50, Matthias Melcher wrote: > >> We could also just open it to the public... . This has two advantages: >> >> 1. we never have to explain anymore why the user should not post there >> 2. we not only have a dedicated bugs, area, but the users would see the STR >> messages, realizing how much activity there is in this product, and that >> their bugs are activaly being fixed >> >> The disadvantage would be one more group to read, which makes no difference >> to me, because I use the email interface. It may annoy the news-reader users >> and it sure will annoy the web interface users... . >> >> +1 on opening it to the public. > > -1 on this proposal, because we would lose the functionality of > the STR system if we encourage users to post bugs directly to > fltk.bugs. > > We would have to explain why their posts got lost. ;-) > > The advantage of forcing people to post to the STR pages is that > all posts are archived in the correct order. In the mailing list > or news reader, threads are not always ordered correctly (this > has obviously to do with *how* someone posts a message and through > which interface (mail, news, web)).
Ah, I was not thinking about a replacement for the STRs. We would still have to point folks to the STR if the desire modifications. But you do have a point there. _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
