Martin Man wrote: > Every question asked on -discuss means "The problem solution is not > obvious, I was not able to figure out better place to ask and I have not > found the answer with the google"
No, not necessarily. I'd maintain it means "I'm stuck and I posted to the first mailing list that I found that looked vaguely relevant". > I don't see a problem here, the -discuss traffic simply reflects the > biggest issues that are in the community. It is a problem because installation questions are drowning out everything else, and community members are unsubscribing as a result. > Proper googleable FAQs, guides, and tutorials will reduce the noise, not > creation of other lists or unsubscription or whatever other hiding > mechanism... We already have the first, we aren't creating any new lists and nobody is hiding anything. All I am doing is making it easier for people to find the existing forum for help. What exactly is the problem with that? > P.S. just BTW: what do you mean by "OpenSolaris Content", isn't > installation an opensolaris issue numero uno (#1)? General community discussion - proposals for new projects, suggestions for things we should address as a community etc. Most everything *except* installation questions. -- Alan Burlison --
