Re: debian forum
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 07:18:32PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:38:50AM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote:
> > The purpose of the forum was not to ake over the mailing list, but assist
> > is more in-depth problems and a way of people to find common issues,
> > instead of using the maillist to ask for problems which have already been
> > addressesed. Is'nt it funny that, when the topic is first mentioned, not
> > many people have anything to say. But when someone does something,
> > everyone has their two cents to add in.
> >
> > I am NOT trying to take over any of the other forums. Sorry if it seemed
> > that way. I wish to create a place for people to talk about more in depth
> > problems, where the answers can be archived and retrived by all. Forums
> > will never beat mailling lists!
> >
> > I am aware that there are other forums out there. I am just trying to give
> > back to the Debian community, as I have been giving so much.
> >
> > Please appreciate my efforts, and instead of trying to tell me it is
> > wrong, give useful suggestions.
>
> A major difficulty with this suggestion is, IMHO, the question of
> expert resources, that is to say the time of people whose answers to
> questions are actually useful. These people seem not to be interested
> in yet another forum/list/whatever that they feel obliged to
> watch. (At least this is the impression I get from the responses that
> I have seen to other, prior suggestions of this general sort.) I think
> the 'good answer people' are a scarce resource that should be handled
> carefully. Personnally, I fail to see how this proposal would use this
> scarce resource more effectively, so I am fearful about giving it a
> try. What happens if the 'good answer people' stop paying attention
> and stop noticing to pleas for help? Not good.
Maybe a project to index the mailing list the way dmoz indexes the web?
-- hendrik
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