On 03/06/10 10:05, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi,
Dirk Hohndel wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2010 02:04:23 -0600, Andrew Flegg<[email protected]> wrote:
Firstly, this would probably be best on the forum - or meego-community
at a push - as this is where the conference is being planned.
Is it? That's a bummer as I am hardly ever on the forum (email based
person - never figured out how to be able to track an active forum and
not miss stuff).
This may be something to take up with the community office/working group
- I've definitely missed some topics on the forum that were directly
relevant to things I'm interested in, and I've seen others who have also
missed stuff.
I know that email-forum integration was a high priority a month ago, but
I haven't seen any movement on it since (and frankly I haven't yet seen
a good definition of what "email-forum integration" actually means. My
vision is Google Groups - read& post online if you want, read& post in
email client if you want. But that seemed to pose some problems for
vBulletin.
Some searching on the forum seems to indicate a bunch of threads on
location (that's settled - it's Dublin), on social events (outstanding),
but I don't seem to see any current discussion on format or content of
the conference. Am I missing something?
Last I heard there was a small group of 4 people responsible for
content. I don't know how/where they're working. That group is Thiago,
Carsten, Mr. Meeks and (ahem) you.
I'm pretty miffed at this too.
MeeGo is *very* much at the development stage - and that means we developers are
by far the most active and frankly, the most relevant, part of the community at
this point.
And our preferred communication tool is being sidelined.
Despite the fact that the forum is *perfectly capable* of operating a "crappy
but good enough" mailing-list <-> Forum interface:
http://wiki.meego.com/Community_Office#Proposed_Tasks:_not_committed_yet
here is "the solution"... live... today... now... on maemo.org
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=28924
But it's still "closed" ... normal forum members don't see posts in it
(deliberately AIUI).
What about this thread:
http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2010-April/000665.html
In particular Reggie, the forum sysadmin, asked "are you OK with the (minor)
drawbacks?". I replied "Yes":
http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2010-April/000694.html
And nothing happened...
There was a lot of pressure for MeeGo to use an opensource forum product; we
didn't, we used a closed product - and I thought one reason was precisely
because it could meet this requirement.
I actually do care what the "users" say.
I would like to feel that I'm part of the community.
Dawn recently asked us to "please go to the forums and contribute" ... well,
sure...
I'm also working *at least* 50hr+ weeks of work time and 30+hrs of volunteer
time on MeeGo.... I make no apologies for wanting to minimise time "wasted" on
inefficient forum UIs.
GET THE BLOODY THING FIXED!
Please :)
David
--
"Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."
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