On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:14 +0000, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
> d) The communication via wiki or a forum is not very efficient for > development purpose (it's great for the end-user because he can > find lots of information there). Mailing lists are much better > for a development community because everybody receives everything > without having to scan lots of web pages or forum posts etc. which > is very time-consuming. > > e) This mailing list is not very efficient either. > g) There is a lack of communication between SuSE and the community. > Just as a very simple example: the feedback form on SuSE's web > site has been like a big black hole for years now... > +1 all around. A suggestion - why not setup an integrated OpenSuse forum and mailing list - So a user could subscirbe to a forum (say OpenSuse-dev) and whenever someone posts to the forum, it also sends an email with the post to the mailing list - that way there's an archive for users to view/search, but everything happens in the mailing list way. Then if someone responds to the mailing list, have the mail mgr auto post the response so that it shows up in the forums as well. I'm suggesting we truly integrate a forum and mailing list. And I'd also suggest that Suse developers need to be more active externally - you're an open project now - why collaborate/email/discuss internally without collaborating with the community. You may be surprised at some of the benefits. Other projects have done this well...
