Goodbye, Fedora (Limiting -devel to maintainers/contributers/etc?)
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 15:33:07 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 07:22 -0800, Randy Wyatt wrote:
>
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >
> > Unless I'm mistaken, the original idea was that -devel
> members has to be
> > sponsored before given rw rights.
> > Being a fedora developer and/or an active -extras maintainer
> will just
> > speed things up.
>
> No. fedora-devel-list was originally meant to be developer
> discussion
> only. End-user support does not belong here at
> all. Unfortunately,
> this list has been increasingly failing us for a few reasons:
>
> - "developer discussion" is a gray area
> - policing is a manual process of constant vigilance. Effort
> today
> leaves no lasting effects in a few days.
>
> What if more list members helped in the policing, making it an
> actively
> hostile place for end-users to post support questions? I
> dunno...
>
>
> Making any list actively hostile to end-users is a quick way to lose
> end-users. This is one of the reasons I no longer use openSuSE.
>
... but should end-users (with support questions) post in -devel?
- Gilboa
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