On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alistair Bush wrote: >> Dale wrote: >> >> >>>> The Gentoo subforum on LQ would help to collect the posts in one place. >>>> >>>> >>> That would be the point. Gentoo has its own forum so why have two >>> forums? What would be the point in having two places to go look for >>> answers? Better yet, why would Gentoo support both forums? >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> How about we ask for a subforum to be created with a BIG STICKY telling >> it is better to ask support questions at forums.gentoo.org >> >> Could it be possible that users don't know about f.g.o? ( find it >> highly unlikely actually) >> >> Alistair >> >> >> > > I'm not 100% against this. I do like your idea a lot tho. I have two > things that concern me but may not make sense to anyone else. > > 1: Anyone remember the GUI installer? I didn't think there was enough > people back then to support that "monster" either. I liked the idea but > thought Gentoo would be better served by letting the devs concentrate on > better things and most likely more important things. I feel about the > same way about this. In the past week or so, I have seen discussions > about packages not having maintainers and other things that needs > attention but lack time or man power. While Gentoo has come a VERY long > way in even the past few months, I would hate to see it get bogged down > with another project. If it gets more projects than it can handle, the > "death of Gentoo" talk will start again. I been here long enough to see > that a few times.
The point that you are missing is that Jesús is already doing the same stuff now as he will in the future. He just needs a project page to make his "job" even easier and 'official' for LQ management. > > 2: I sort of like having basically one place to go for help. The place > I go is Gentoo. That includes the Gentoo mailing list and the Gentoo > forums. If LQ has a forum, who is next, justlinux, then someone else > etc etc etc? Am I and a lot of other people going to have to search > half a dozen websites to find a fix? What if the answer to my question > is on a website I am not familiar with or know about? There would be a > lot of duplication of threads across several sites and fixes would be > harder to find. I am a member at justlinux, LQ and several other sites > and I on occasion help people on other sites but I don't go looking for > Gentoo fixes there. Agreed, but people will do it anyway. We can't "shut down" http://www.gentoo-quebec.org/forum/ for example. > > I'm not a dev by any means and what I say may not count for anything and > could be ignored if needed. I have been using Gentoo since the old 1.4 > days, even that was old when I got the CD, so I would hate to see Gentoo > stall or stagnate again. Number two really concerns me a lot. The devs > can decide if they should support the idea as far as man power. I don't > see a way around having to search different sites to find fixes tho. I highly, highly doubt that the GSE project will cause any stagnation of Gentoo Linux. Jesús is not an ebuild developer, so if anything his efforts here will *help* Gentoo and could bring in more community members. The more community members we have, the more ebuild developers we might get, etc etc. > > That said, I know Jeremy at LQ from talks in the past. I know the site > and it is a great site. I am not questioning that at all. > > As for people knowing about Gentoo and the forums, go to google and type > in Gentoo. First hit, Gentoo home page. Even includes links to the > docs and other pages that are handy. > > Thoughts? I really don't understand your negativity showing in this thread. I'm not trying to attack you or anything, so don't get the wrong impression. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
