John, On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:03 AM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:55 AM, Alex Aycinena <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Liz, > > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Liz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Alex, your email address is often getting picked up as a support email > >> address, presumably because A is first in the alphabet. > >> > >> Do you know from where this is collected? > >> How can we put "[email protected]" at the top of these lists? > >> > >> > >> Liz > >> > > > > > > Yes this is happening a bit and is mildly annoying. > > > > And I hadn't been able to figure out why until a few weeks ago I noticed > > that the Windows version of gnucash (my wife uses that for her small > > business, I use Linux) has, under Help->About, a "credits" button that is > > not on the Linux version. When you click on that button it lists > > contributors for both development and documentation. My e-mail is listed > > under both groups, along with many others, but is not the first, though > > near the top for documentors. > > > > But I do remember recently stumbling onto a pop-up of some kind that did > > show contributors and my name and e-mail was the first on the list. But I > > can't find it again or figure out where I saw it. > > > > Your suggestion is excellent: we should put a comment in these places > > suggesting to people that, though this information is provided, it is not > > courteous to contact the listed people directly and that, instead, users > > are welcome to, and should, ask all and any questions @ " > > [email protected]" where people can respond in a voluntary basis > and > > based on knowledge of the particular part of gnucash that their question > > pertains to. > > > > I am not personally familiar with where these lists come from, nor where > > that other list, that I can no longer find, was. > > > > Perhaps one of the other developers can make a recommendation as to how > we > > can implement your suggestion. > > Excellent idea. The “Credits” button pops up the AUTHORS file, so I’ve > added a note to the top of that pointing users seeking support to the FAQ, > Mailing Lists, and IRC pages in the wiki. > > Alex’s name appears only in those files, the ChangeLogs, and in some > copyright notices, so I suspect that the other pop-up he found does the > same. Maybe that will address the problem. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
