Hi Dawn, On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Foster, Dawn M <[email protected]> wrote: > A while back, we made the discussion to move the community office discussions > to the forum. After living with that decision for a month or so, I'm starting > to think that the discussions should be moved back to meego-community. The > community discussions have just been too disconnected from the developers > (who love their mailing lists). Right now, the developers form the base of > the MeeGo community, and the reality is that the mailing lists are the best > way to keep the developers connected to the broader community efforts (MeeGo > conference, etc.)
From my perspective at least, I totally must have missed the memo about this announcement. I only figured it out when I realised that -community had been really quiet and went to have another look at the forums. For one reason or another I haven't gotten totally attached to them yet (though I still hope this will happen), and as a result, I haven't been participating in discussions there much. But I'm also atypical in that I don't absolutely hate forums. I know a number of developer types who do dislike them because they mostly don't scale in terms of trying to keep track of multiple topics across multiple projects. > What I don't want to have is official community office discussions happening > in both places, so I would like to pick one place for the community > discussions. I propose moving those discussions back to meego-community. Definitely a sensible move. One or the other. And this time I'd suggest that if it *is* the forums, close the -community ML. Vice versa, if it *is* a mailing list, close the community forums. > The forums have been a great way for end users to get engaged with the > project and ask questions, and I think that we should keep the end user > discussions in the forum. This would give us a more clean split: > * Mailing lists: MeeGo project discussions, developer discussions, community > office, etc. > * Forums: End user questions, installation / troubleshooting, using MeeGo, > etc. I'm OK either way for the most part. I really hold no strong opinions. Provided there are some people at the end of the day that cross into both mediums and are able to represent the concerns of the wider community (which will not be a problem with such a strong group of people as we have), then it will work at the end of the day, I think. > > Thoughts, issues, questions, flame wars? > > Dawn Robin Burchell mob: +447702671419 msn: [email protected] irc: w00t @ irc.freenode.net twr: http://twitter.com/w00teh lac: http://identi.ca/w00t _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
