IMO, any ordinary user who stumbled upon this list (ooo-dev) would be frightened away immediately. This list is totally unsuitable for user support.
--Jean On 23/08/2011, at 19:02, "Marcus (OOo)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Wasn't there consensus to wait for new mailing lists until there is really a > need to split up the things? > > When we would follow this way, then we have to wait until the messages on > ooo-dev@ from normal users grow up too much. > > Otherwise we would create a mailing list for (currently) nobody. ;-) > > Marcus > > > > Am 08/23/2011 01:46 AM, schrieb Dave Fisher: >> 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? >> >> 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
