On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > The changes are good at showing where we are as developers. > > The unfortunate point is that [email protected] is still a functional list > with several posts in a day and the change is hiding that list. > > Until there is [email protected] we shouldn't hide users@ooo. > > Does anyone think we should wait to create ooo-users? >
I've been wondering the same thing. I started following [email protected] around a week ago. It is getting some traffic, but not a lot. I think the larger question is this: How do we want to support users? Mailing list? Forums? Both? There are some advantages to getting the user questions all in one place. That gives a single place for us to monitor. It also gives a single place for users to search to see if their questions had been previously asked/answered, etc. Since we are dealing in many cases with less technical end users, the mailing list interface itself will require support, e.g., users unable to figure out how to unsubscribe. Since the support forum does not require subscription, that is one less thing to worry about. What if we just had support forums, but no users list? Would we miss anything? Would users? Note that phpBB forums allow a person to subscribe to a forum or a topic, so those who want to receive emails can. But they would need to go back to the forum website to respond. -Rob > Regards, > Dave > > On Aug 22, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > >> Am 08/23/2011 12:50 AM, schrieb Dave Fisher: >>> >>> On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>> >>>> Am 08/22/2011 11:45 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: >>>>> Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>>>>> @all: >>>>>> If there is somewhere else a place that should be updated (and I've >>>>>> write access) please let me know. >>>>>> >>>>>> Marcus >>>>> >>>>> If you have access, maybe on the mailing list page on the OOo site [1] >>>>> or [2]. If not then post a message to the list that your on. >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://support.openoffice.org/ >>>> >>>> Sorry, for the support area I haven't write access. However, it would be >>>> sufficient to delete the "Users Mail List" row and to keep the "General >>>> OOo Mail Lists" row as it points already to the modified webpage. >>> >>> We are acting a little quickly. >> >> Really? ;-) >> The ooo-dev@ mailing list is present since months. For the same long time >> the old MLs have lost a lot of users/posts. >> >>> Shouldn't we have an [email protected] before we delete the >>> Users Mail List on the OOo site? >> >> The data is still there. It's just the collected link list that is no longer >> present/visible. >> >>>>> [2] http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html >>>> >>>> Is there something else that needs to be changed? Normally it should be >>>> fine already. ;-) >>> >>> The old version is carefully hidden here [3] >>> >>> [3] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/www/mail_list.html >>> >>> Until we move the users@ooo list I think that needs to be added back to [2] >>> and then [2] checked into to [3]. >> >> But until this all isn't live it won't help to bring over the possible new >> dev's. I think it's OK to start now to point to the new mailing list(s). >> >>> BTW - Creating the support area is one of the next items in the podling >>> site. [4] >>> >>> [4] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/support/ >> >> Marcus >> > >
