Nandeep Mali wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > >> I'm a member at LQ tho I haven't been there in a long while. I just >> don't see why there has to be two forums when the one forum we have is >> more than enough. If someone can't find the Gentoo forums, I'm not sure >> they can find the chair and keyboard either. lol >> > > As a user I'd say that's ignoring us (the users) blatantly. What's the > harm in having it at multiple places? LQ is one of the sites that > comes up first in Google Search. I have found solution for many of my > queries related to other distros there. Agreed that finding Gentoo > Forums is easy, but that doesn't mean that you can expect every user > to go there. A reply like mine would usually be countered with: Gentoo > users are assumed to be intelligent enough to find this forum. lol >
Just to be clear here, I am a user myself. I'm not a dev. My opinion is a user opinion. > >> I don't see how doing double the work will benefit anyone. Its a lot >> easier to have one forum than it is to have two forums. I just think >> the Gentoo folks would be better to concentrate on what we have than to >> be spreading more work around for the same people. Its not like they >> don't have enough work already. >> > > This is also wrong. As I said before having a presence in multiple > areas is just plain helpful and not redundant. Search engines are the > first tool that a user would usually use and getting more results is > nothing but helpful. And as Jesús put it he is volunteering to do it, > so I don't see what is the problem here? If the sub-forum does come up > I am sure other people would volunteer as well. Nobody is forcing > anyone to do anything here. > > I wish some people would start seeing it from user's perspective as > well. And volunteers who want to help like this should be encouraged. > Frankly speaking replies like this have discouraged many users I have > personally known. And it takes great courage to post to Gentoo ML in > fear of such replies. Again and again its virtually stated that: "user > is dumb unless they do it the way I want them to do it or the way I > think it is right". I take back my words if Gentoo is supposed to be a > developer only distro. > > Anyway, again from a user's perspective, Gentoo also has its share of > great minds, awesome documentation and some friendly and nice folks. > :) > > Regards > Nandeep > > > Since I am seeing this from a user perspective, my opinion stands. I'm not against them having a forum where ever people choose, I just don't think Gentoo and devs should be required to support it. They have enough to deal with now. Dale :-) :-)
