Am 08/23/2011 02:18 AM, schrieb Rob Weir:
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.
Right, I don't see any benefit to use a mailing list as normal user. You
cannot search for others that have the same thing; unless you explain
the users how and where to search.
And very often they write to the list but aren't subscribed. So they
don't get the answer unless someone is CC'ing them.
In a forum all in one place. You can search, write and can get answers.
It's up to us if a subscription is needed. It would work without.
Furthermore, I don't think that mailing lists are common for the average
user. But forums are.
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.
I don't think that we or the users would miss anything because there is
no chance to miss something as the communitation method is not existing.
Marcus
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
