Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (60 mails)

[Bryen Yunashko <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> I'm not where to share feedback about this, but as this is the only
> openSUSE mailing list I'm currently subscribed to, I thought i'd start
> here. Before I blog about this (if I do), I wanted to say I'm happy to
> see the openSUSE community launch a Documentation sub-domain, especially
> as someone who enjoys writing user help for upstream.  Getting users to
> read documentation and user help can be a challenge and efforts like
> this are important to encourage users to start in one spot when they
> need help.
>
> But I can't communicate enough how disappointed I am in the sub-domain
> that has been chosen: http;//rtfm.opensuse.org - RTFM has such a
> negative connotation, especially from Linux's early years, that while
> this may be funny to an old-timer that has been using Linux for more
> than 10 years, to someone who is new and needs help, this is a bad
> message to send.  Whether they have tried to get help on IRC or a forum
> and have been told to go "RTFM" we shouldn't encourage that kind of
> behavior by naming a sub-domain "RTFM".
>
> Call it docs.opensuse.org, help.opensuse.org, userhelp.opensuse.org or
> anything else.  There's no reason to continue an old stereotype or use
> an abbreviation in a sub-domain that contains profanity.
>
> If anyone can pass this on to the community members who set this up or
> share their contact information I'm more than happy to pass on this
> feedback.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul
>
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I agree with you that RTFM is *not* the way to go.   the appropriate
mailing list to voice such comments would be the project mailing list
(as a general user concern) or directly to the opensuse documentation
mailing list.  I would advise at the least subscribe to the project
mailing list so you're more in tune with openSUSE going ons.

You could also file in openFATE to propose a change to the sub-domain name.

Bryen M Yunashko
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