Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (156 mails)

[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-10-19 17:34:55 (-0400), Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Robert, and thanks for picking this topic up.

> Today at the project meeting we had an initial discussion on one of
> the items from the "What we need to improve" session at OSC 11. We
> discussed the problem around the number of mailing lists. I tried to
> capture the highlights of the discussion in the wiki: 
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:What_to_improve_osc11_session#Improve_communication_infrastructure
> as bullet points.
>
> If there is anything I missed or you have ideas in this area that
> should be captured please feel free to add them to the wiki. The
> idea is that we do not want to start the discussion from scratch
> when we pick this topic up again.

I don't see much to add to that point, at least as it is defined
there.

I can only emphasize that *this* *is* *critical* to the project.
Our communication is really terrible at this point -- I won't go
into the details here and now, don't want to hijack the thread,
and I already know a lot of people will disagree simply because
from their position, they don't realize how bad it is.

I added a few bits about IRC to the wiki page:
* we currently have 82 (!) IRC channels that match "#opensuse*"
  and "#suse*"
* the list is here:
  http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/files/opensuse-irc.html
  (*)
* most are empty or next to empty

(*) if you want to process the data, it's also available as CSV:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/files/opensuse-irc.csv

> Also it appears that there might be a need for a volunteer to create
> a proposal at some point in the future, hopefully not too distant
> future ;)

Let's collect some data and ideas first :)

cheers
-- 
  -o) Pascal Bleser
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