+1I. t's also trivailly easy to follow the mailing lists when travelling with a BlackBerry, but impossible to follow the fora.
PS. However, proper quoting seems just as impossible :-( Sorry. On 03/06/2010, David Greaves <[email protected]> wrote: > 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..." > -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[email protected] | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
