On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, 23 June 2008 at 23:57, Colin Walters wrote: >> 2008/6/23 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> > >> > This weekend at Paul's State of Fedora talk at the end of the sessions >> > on Saturday, he mentioned several areas where Fedora really could >> > improve. One of these areas was the help that people get on the #fedora >> > irc channel. >> >> >> I think IRC is kind of fundamentally doomed because of the culture. > > It's possible to keep small channels (<50 people) nice and civil, but > with more people, it's not really viable unless you have an op watching > at all times. > >> If we want to emphasize a support medium, the forum is much nicer: >> >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7 >> >> It has decent search (and unlike Bugzilla your forum thread won't vanish >> from search because it's too old or got fixed, grrr) > > I, for one, detest the forums (any forums) for their terrible user > interface. Mailing lists or usenet newsgroups are much more convenient > to use. > I have to agree... having tried to do Red Hat support through Forums before.. it was pretty broken ( a long rant has been deleted due to not wanting to put on another eyepatch). The interface in forums does not seem to be any more different from 1999/2000 to now. If anything, you want something that combines mail and forums.. I need to look at the mailman patches for that. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
