On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:00:37 -1000, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > D. D. Brierton wrote: > > I've been a RHL and FC user for quite some time. I've been on the > > mailing lists, and had bugzilla accounts for a long time now. But this > > mailing list is strangling itself. The volume is way too high. Look at > > the beginning of the Fedora Project and see how many Red Hat engineers > > regularly posted to this list, and now look at how many do (Tim Waugh > > and Dave Jones make an occasional appearance here these days, and we're > > lucky to have them). That's it. Who's driven them away? WE HAVE. > > > > Totally in agreement, please read my post on this subject here. > > http://www.livejournal.com/users/wtogami/2005/02/04/ > > Key to the problem is that mailing lists are far from the best medium > for end-user support. We need to steer end-users to an entirely > different medium in order to scale effectively. Official project change > in that direction is happening soon. Read the link above for details. > while I agree with the problem, I dont agree with the solution. forums are going to worsen the problem rather than resolve it. what we need is a good set of guidelines thats *documented* well in an official manner while the community itself can enforce these guidelines, it needs more official direction from the fedora project -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram
