Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > I agree; this is why we set up opensolaris-help. But even there, > questions should be about getting up and running (or up and > developing) with an OpenSolaris-based distribution, not S10 or > anything else. And specific questions like "How can I get my e1000g > NIC to work?" are probably better answered by a distribution-specific > list or in a relevant community group. The intent for -help was, > iirc, to answer questions like "Why did my build fail?" and "Where is > the source for foo?" > > As for opensolaris-discuss, I don't really care. Noise from newbies > is the least of that list's problems. I always recommend > unsubscribing from it but I guess people are masochists.
I think it's useful to have a 'virtual town square' for OpenSolaris, however at the moment opensolaris-discuss seems to be full of learner drivers practising their 3-point turns and reverse parking manoeuvres. Can't we just do the equivalent of making it a pedestrian-only area? A little light encouragement (telling people where to ask with 'followup-to' set accordingly) might be worth trying. Of course that would require that all the helpful people stop relying to newbie questions on os-discuss and start moving threads and replying on the appropriate forum instead. Seems to me this might be something the OGB could take a lead on... ;-) -- Alan Burlison --
