Alan Burlison wrote:
Bonnie Corwin wrote:
I've put a reference to os-help in the top of the page, but I don't
know how you change the order of the forums in the list below...
You can't change the list of forums easily as it is auto-generated.
Looking into that can go on the list of
Alan Burlison wrote:
I agree, the opensolaris-help forum is *not* well signposted enough, and
the first one we point people at is opensolaris-discuss, so that needs
fixing.
Absolutely! Go to http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and first on
the list is opensolaris-discuss. This is what it
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Absolutely! Go to http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and first on
the list is opensolaris-discuss. This is what it says:
OpenSolaris: discuss
OpenSolaris General Discussion. All topics involving OpenSolaris are
open for discussion.
Should we be surprised if
Alan Burlison wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Absolutely! Go to http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and first on
the list is opensolaris-discuss. This is what it says:
OpenSolaris: discuss
OpenSolaris General Discussion. All topics involving OpenSolaris are
open for discussion.
Should we be
It appears to me that opensolaris-discuss is becoming
more and more
dominated with Solaris installation questions, and
the OpenSolaris
content is becoming lost in the noise. Whilst it is
very nice that
people are being so helpful, it would seem to me that
we should either
be
Andrew Watkins wrote:
I had a quick look at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/newbies/ and it has
a lot of good information, but I think it needs to be improved. Like the
most common questions asked is about installation, so may be some good
HOWTO docs. OK! the over does have one Solaris 10
I've polished up the newbies page as a result of the feedback I've had
(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/newbies/) and added links to it from the
following places - basically everywhere I could find that referred to
opensolaris-discuss.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/
You've made some good points - I try to do my bit - when I 'trip over'
features in Solaris I plonk them on my blog in a hope that maybe it'll
help others; I know a thing or two about UNIX but in terms of the
'Solaris features' I'm very much a beginner.
I appreciate that you blog them, but it
Sean Sprague wrote:
You should get out more! But watch out for the potters ;-)
Hey! We're not so bad! Just because that Rowling lady decided to make
us look bad with those witches James and Lily and family. :-)
-spp, Potter and Proud :-)
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Alan Burlison wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
It is better to have clean decisions instead of moving away because of noise.
Agreed.
I can currrently live with the current level of newbe noise and I am in hope
that an official OpenSolaris helpdesk would reduce the amount
Stephen!
Sean Sprague wrote:
You should get out more! But watch out for the potters ;-)
Hey! We're not so bad! Just because that Rowling lady decided to make
us look bad with those witches James and Lily and family. :-)
-spp, Potter and Proud :-)
Do you have a beard? You could be
Jon Trulson wrote:
There is one as Keith pointed out, it is called opensolaris-help.
However until we start directing people there, they won't start using it.
I wonder... How many experts sit around trolling *-help lists looking
for an opportunity to help a newbie in need?
Not too
I think it's a bit too late, just go with the flow and leave -discuss
alone. Lobbies are always crowded and noisy, and those arriving in Hotel
Solaris need to feel welcome in order to want to say. Who cares what
version of Solaris they happened to try first, give them a chance to
figure stuff
Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
I think it's a bit too late, just go with the flow and leave -discuss
alone. Lobbies are always crowded and noisy, and those arriving in Hotel
Solaris need to feel welcome in order to want to say. Who cares what
version
There is room for both support and general discuss forums. If the discuss
forum at the top is catching all the support requests, either A) the help forum
is too hard to find, and/or B) the help forum isn't as helpful as the general
forum.
In this case, the help forum is certainly hard to
Joerg Schilling wrote:
It is better to have clean decisions instead of moving away because of noise.
Agreed.
I can currrently live with the current level of newbe noise and I am in hope
that an official OpenSolaris helpdesk would reduce the amount of traffic in
this list.
There is one as
Sean Sprague wrote:
I agree completely. Without the employment of a moderator (very
short-straw job, and not very open), we are pretty much stuck with the
current situation; and the encumbent S/N ratio as you quite rightly say.
Its a shame, and even though people like Ian Collins do try
MC wrote:
There is room for both support and general discuss forums. If the
discuss forum at the top is catching all the support requests, either
A) the help forum is too hard to find, and/or B) the help forum isn't
as helpful as the general forum.
In this case, the help forum is
Alan,
So the solution is to list support forums above or otherwise adjacent
to the discussion forums. That's what makes sense, and that's what
works for others.
I agree, the opensolaris-help forum is *not* well signposted enough, and
the first one we point people at is
Sean Sprague wrote:
Snapped off www.opensolaris.org 30 seconds ago:
Join dozens of lively discussion forums for conversations on almost any
topic. You may wish to subscribe to opensolaris-announce, if you're a
new member. Or join the fray in opensolaris-discuss. You can also join
the
On 8/15/07, Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean Sprague wrote:
Snapped off www.opensolaris.org 30 seconds ago:
Join dozens of lively discussion forums for conversations on almost any
topic. You may wish to subscribe to opensolaris-announce, if you're a
new member. Or join the
Brandorr wrote:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/
http://www.genunix.org/wiki
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/newbie_faq/
http://solaris-x86.org/documents/
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/s10u3_howto.html
http://opensolaris.mynoteb00k.com/
Dennis Clarke wrote:
also ... I always wanted to do more with that and then I got busy and you
know how it is. :-\
Sure ;-) Ping me when you are ready.
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http://www.blastwave.org/docs/s10u3_howto.html
as soon as Update 4 gets released ( Thursday ? ) I'll update that.
Dennis
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Dennis Clarke wrote:
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/s10u3_howto.html
as soon as Update 4 gets released ( Thursday ? ) I'll update that.
Any chance we could have a non-update-release dependent link, e.g.
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/s10_latest_howto.html, or somesuch?
... not until the
Boyd,
Isn't this what
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/immigrants/ was
intended for?
Yes, but immigrants isn't exactly an obvious name to some...maybe
newbies could be aliased to redirect to that one? I would also note
that in many countries now, the word immigrant is
I think New in the url as short for New Users is pretty descriptive, myself
:)
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Alan Burlison wrote:
It appears to me that opensolaris-discuss is becoming more and more
dominated with Solaris installation questions, and the OpenSolaris
content is becoming lost in the noise. Whilst it is very nice that
people are being so helpful, it would seem to me that we should
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:40 +1200, Ian Collins wrote:
Alan Burlison wrote:
It appears to me that opensolaris-discuss is becoming more and more
dominated with Solaris installation questions, and the OpenSolaris
content is becoming lost in the noise. Whilst it is very nice that
people
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