--- Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:38:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On a separate topic - have you guys thought about replacing the user > > mailing list with a real newsgroup? Yes, newsgroups are noisy as hell, but > > they are also fairly easy to browse through (especially with a scoring > > newsreader, or with the "D" key under trn). And the noisiness can be > > useful. > > I think that's forcing more software upon people to use. Everyone > has email. And there'll probably be a reluctance by some to use > newsreader software - thus hitting another problem. > > Alan. > I would be in this group, I don't currently use news.
--- Brian Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to put in my two cents: > > 1. On the bug database: > > Using the SF bug database is a real hassle, and it's not that good. > I'd rather see bug reports come to the devel mailing list. It would > be far more effective. The same goes for the patch manager and > feature/support-request trackers. > > When someone files a bug report anonymously there's almost zero chance > of it getting resolved since the anonymous poster never replies to the > inevitable follow-up questions. > I don't see how I can help there, I looked at it and it is a mess. If it where cleaned up I could keep an eye on it and try to help it grow. > > 2. On mailing lists: > > I've never suscribed to the dri-users list. I spend enough time as it > is monitoring the mail on dri-devel. Like the other developers, I > think my time is better spent on the high-profile problems, rather > than answering newbie questions. So I guess I'd like to see us > continue with separate lists and hope that people use them appropriately. > > -Brian > I'm on the dri-users and now that I know that I need to be answering users questions there, I think I can make it a happier place. --- Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:03:05PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Understood, but there's a lot of users out there that don't want > to receive emails from dri-devel. They just want to submit a bug, > walk away, then get some response back to say it's fixed, or someone's > working on it, or it won't be fixed etc. > > But with the SF bug tracking system we are currently sending bug > reports, patches etc to the dri-patches mailing list. Maybe we should > re-route them to dri-devel to get more feedback. > I'd be able to better help ought if they went to dri-users, I could then forward ones to dri-devel if needed. As mentioned erlier I think there are some power-users ought there, at least one :) I don't think I want to subscribe to dri-patches, I don't think it's the place for bug reports... at all. > The problem we're facing is that there's no formal process to assigning > the bug report, so no-one else knows whether someone could be working > on it or not, thus duplicating effort. > > Development is ideally what we all want to be doing, but there's a > few admin type tasks we really do have to bear - and that's the uphill > struggle. > > Alan. > I'd be happy to help ought with some admin type tasks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
