On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 07:39:52PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
houghi wrote:
The main problem that there are only these more technical savy people is BECAUSE there is no forum. At this moment the technical less savy people do not have a say on openSUSE.
Sure they do. Anyone is perfectly welcome to participate, regardless of level of technical expertise. However, if you're saying "technical less savvy" = "unable/unwilling to use a mailing-list", I'm not convinced that's a helpful attitude.
I am talking about people who are afraid of the idea of a mailinglist They would feel much more comfortable with a webbased solution as that is what they know. So I am not saying they are not welcome, they are.
I see on Usenet people asking for enhancements or sugesting things. When I tell them to either post a bugreport or subscribe to the mailinglist, the people find this to cumbersome to do.
People who participate on USENET, but find it cumbersome to subscribe to a mailinglist have a problem that we cannot solve here. Posting a bugreport can be cumbersome, I agree, but that's life and a webforum won't have any effect on that.
There are several reasons for that. 1) They participate on Usenet with groups.google 2) Subscribing and unsubscribing is less cumbersome then with a mailinglist. 3) Bugzilla asks information they are not willing to give 4) Just to subscribe and go throught the cumbersome bugzilla process is not something really userfriendly Also do not focus on where I got the information, Usenet, focus on how and why there are not many, many more subscribers on the mailinglists and I am looking how we can get many many more people contributing to SUSE and not only developers, technical savy people and a handfull of true end-users. My guess is that easy to do feedback might be a very good first step. houghi -- Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want. -- Tobias Smollet