On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:46, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Following up on this theory, I looked around for an obvious > > configuration or information bug at fedora.redhat.com and > > www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list, and nothing jumps out > > as a reason people would be lead to this list for generic questions. > > For example, I looked to see if there was anywhere that fedora-docs-list > > was described other than "participants of the Docs Project", and I > > didn't find anything. > > > > Next time we get such a question we'll have to ask how they found this > > list for their answer. > > I would think we could take a couple proactive steps without adversely > affecting anyone: > > 1. In Elliot Lee's monthly (or however regular) list of Red Hat/Fedora > lists, the first listing appearing at the top, set off in some manner of > highlight, should be fedora-list. That would emphasize the importance of > that list for users, I think without disparaging any of the other lists. > (I could also see including fedora-devel-list with fedora-list; that > would probably be a judgment call for the Fedora leadership. I suspect > fedora-list sees more traffic, and undoubtedly is where we are > continually redirecting folks.) > > 2. The archive/info page for fedora-docs-list should include a > highlighted area that lets people know how fedora-docs-list differs from > fedora-list, and helpfully provides a link to fedora-list. > > I'm copying Elliot on this message in case he's interested in at least > suggestion #1. Just FYI for Elliot, I requested the list owner to make changes as per #2, to the listinfo/ page and the welcome message. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer this .signature subject to random changes http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41
