On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Andre Hinrichs wrote:
I had a short look on that list and it seems JOSM is covered there reasonably (as well as on the main talk lists). So why change a working situation? Increasing the number of available lists does not necessarily increase the quality.You are right from the developers point of view. But if there is a user who is just having some questions then he might hasitate of signing up to a developers list. At a user list advanced users who are no JOSM developers (like me) can help without disturbing the developers. The developers do not even have to sign up to the users list because the advanced users can surely forward serious issues to the developers list or help other users filing a bug at trac. I think that especially with an increasing number of users this might be a good thing for both the developers and the users.
Well, to make a bit more clear what I wrote above. I think the newbies list and the language specific talk lists already cover that. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason seems to be active answering seldom JOSM questions in newbies list. In talk-de lots of people answer. Most of the newbies questions aren't software-specific, but most often they are OSM specific. When we divide that we get "OSM specific with josm point of view" and "general osm specific" which is not really helpful.
Probably a "newbies-de" is more needed than a "josm-newbies". Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available)
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