Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-06 Thread Shal Farley
On 2018-08-04 4:48 AM, Gilles wrote: It might, since forum softwares (should) provide "sticky posts" that are displayed at the top. The one trick I've seen that seems most effective is to integrate the search function with the New Topic function such that the user is presented with a dynamic

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-04 Thread Gilles
On 04/08/2018 13:29, Stephan Beal wrote: And maybe one day, move the mailing list to a web-based forum entirely so that people can post questions directly. That's exactly what Richard is currently implementing. That alone won't stop the "how do i" posts - it's a Cosmic Rule that many people

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-04 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 3, 2018, at 12:18 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On 8/3/18, Dan Barbarito wrote: >> Hi all, I am trying to understand why Fossil itself does not use the >> built-in ticketing functionality. I understand that trolls + spammers may be >> a problem, but can't ticket changes simply be

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-04 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 12:38 PM Gilles wrote: > A lot of "How do I…?" questions can be answered by searching the archives > of the mailing list : > > https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/ > People don't do that, though. In every support forum in the universe, some

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-04 Thread Gilles
A lot of "How do I…?" questions can be answered by searching the archives of the mailing list : https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/ Since it's apparently not mentionned currently — I had to google "fossil scm mailing list" to find it —, I suggest updating the Docs

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-03 Thread Dan Barbarito
Take your time drh, this is by no means urgent. I really appreciate the clarification. On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:18:43 -0400 Richard Hipp wrote On 8/3/18, Dan Barbarito wrote: > Hi all, I am trying to understand why Fossil itself does not use the > built-in ticketing functionality. I

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-03 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/3/18, Stephan Beal wrote: > > i see that Richard just answered, so i'll stop there and see what he says I like Stephan's answer better than my own :-) -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-03 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 8:11 PM Dan Barbarito wrote: > I am trying to understand why Fossil itself does not use the built-in > ticketing functionality. I understand that trolls + spammers may be a > problem, but can't ticket changes simply be approved/denied? Using the > ticketing system would

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-03 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/3/18, Dan Barbarito wrote: > Hi all, I am trying to understand why Fossil itself does not use the > built-in ticketing functionality. I understand that trolls + spammers may be > a problem, but can't ticket changes simply be approved/denied? I tried that. What I found was that I was

[fossil-users] Fossil's (lack of) use of the Ticket system

2018-08-03 Thread Dan Barbarito
Hi all, I am trying to understand why Fossil itself does not use the built-in ticketing functionality. I understand that trolls + spammers may be a problem, but can't ticket changes simply be approved/denied? Using the ticketing system would give more people the opportunity to understand what