On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 18:21 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Larry Gusaas <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 2011-08-23 3:37 PM Rob Weir wrote: >> >> >> >> Does it matter? The English list is getting very little traffic. >> > >> > There were 56 posts to [email protected] in the last week. Traffic is >> > highest after a new release. Here is a list by month for 2011: Jan 409 >> > Feb 290 Mar 366 Apr 197 May 218 Jun 233 Jul 123 Aug 160 >> > >> >> So the English support forum has 613 *active threads* for August >> alone. In many cases that multiplies out to multiple posts per >> thread. So the forum traffic dwarfs the mailing list traffic. >> >> >> A note was sent today asking about interest. I've seen zero affirmative >> >> responses. >> > >> > You have now. How much response do you expect in six hours (working hours >> > in >> > NA) ? >> > >> >> So that is one. >> >> >> So I don't think any of the lists will get much traffic. >> >> But it makes sense to JFDI and move on to more important things. >> > >> > They will when you have a new release. >> > >> >> Forums will still dominate. >> >> > I am very pleased to hear that providing user support is not important. >> > >> >> That really doesn't add to the conversation, Larry. >> >> I think we have similar goals. > > Finally - actually I do not know what you goals are and more importantly > I do not know what the overall goal of what is happening here is. > > That is not rhetorical, are we just sunsetting the OO.o project are we > setting up to become OSS-Symphony or are we building a user facing > product...it makes a difference as to what needs to be done now. >
Honestly? We're bikeshedding while waiting for the SVN dump to be loaded. But we should probably use this time to get Bugzilla migrated to Apache, since we're going to be hurting if we don't have that in a few more weeks. Of course, it is worth having a discussion about high importance/lower urgency things, like our long term support strategy, but that should probably occur in its own thread. >
