[heroes] https://connect.opensuse.org/ is down.
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That is intentional: https://news.opensuse.org/2021/07/26/deavtivating_connect_o_o/ On 05/08/2021 13.39, Carlos E. R. wrote:
https://connect.opensuse.org/ is down.
The connection has timed out
The server at connect.opensuse.org is taking too long to respond.
On 05/08/2021 13.51, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
That is intentional: https://news.opensuse.org/2021/07/26/deavtivating_connect_o_o/
I wasn't told, I do not read news. I am one of the two volunteers charged with coping with spam there, and I can not do my job. We have asked many times for this move, but it would have been nice that somebody had emailed us directly :-/ -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
Carlos,
On 05/08/2021 13.51, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
That is intentional: https://news.opensuse.org/2021/07/26/deavtivating_connect_o_o/
I wasn't told, I do not read news. I am one of the two volunteers charged with coping with spam there, and I can not do my job.
I'm deeply sorry that we left you out of the conversation. That was not intended. We tried to reach out to as many people as possible - and in the end decided that the best way would be to use https://news.opensuse.org in addition to catch the ones we forgot or could not reach directly. Our assumption was that news.o.o would be the place where we can reach out to everyone interested in openSUSE. If that's not the case, I would like to know how we can improve here. So here is my question: How - beside any personal contact - do you get news around openSUSE?
We have asked many times for this move, but it would have been nice that somebody had emailed us directly :-/
Again: sorry. Feel free to blame me directly for this - but I did not left you out by intention (to my defend). With kind regards, Lars
Lars Vogdt composed on 2021-08-06 08:43 (UTC+0200):
We tried to reach out to as many people as possible - and in the end decided that the best way would be to use https://news.opensuse.org in That's a first class example of the worst page layouts the web has to offer, as if it was prepared to host a ton of ads, so tons of whitespace, plus lots of scrolling, a mere 10 items per page, no option to increase item count and eliminate need for multiple pages, and a humongous banner to push most relevant content below the first screen. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science.
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Am Fri, 6 Aug 2021 03:10:10 -0400
schrieb Felix Miata
That's a first class example of the worst page layouts the web has to offer, as if it was prepared to host a ton of ads, so tons of whitespace, plus lots of scrolling, a mere 10 items per page, no option to increase item count and eliminate need for multiple pages, and a humongous banner to push most relevant content below the first screen.
There is always room for improvement. Feel free to submit your issues and patches to https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o From what I've seen, valid pull requests get merged very quickly there. Thanks, Lars
Lars Vogdt wrote:
We tried to reach out to as many people as possible - and in the end decided that the best way would be to use https://news.opensuse.org in addition to catch the ones we forgot or could not reach directly. Our assumption was that news.o.o would be the place where we can reach out to everyone interested in openSUSE. If that's not the case, I would like to know how we can improve here.
So here is my question: How - beside any personal contact - do you get news around openSUSE?
Generally via the mailing lists - I virtually never go to visit news.o.o :-) I think it would have been nice to announce the closing of connect.o.o to e.g. project.lists ? maybe also announcement.lists. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.8°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes
On 8/6/21 4:46 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Lars Vogdt wrote:
We tried to reach out to as many people as possible - and in the end decided that the best way would be to use https://news.opensuse.org in addition to catch the ones we forgot or could not reach directly. Our assumption was that news.o.o would be the place where we can reach out to everyone interested in openSUSE. If that's not the case, I would like to know how we can improve here.
So here is my question: How - beside any personal contact - do you get news around openSUSE?
Generally via the mailing lists - I virtually never go to visit news.o.o :-)
I think it would have been nice to announce the closing of connect.o.o to e.g. project.lists ? maybe also announcement.lists.
Yeah i'd second the send it to the project list as well even if its as simple as "Connect is closing down, read more at <News Link>", I think we reasonably expect people interested in project wide news to read one or the other but not both. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
On 06/08/2021 10.22, Simon Lees wrote:
On 8/6/21 4:46 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Lars Vogdt wrote:
We tried to reach out to as many people as possible - and in the end decided that the best way would be to use https://news.opensuse.org in addition to catch the ones we forgot or could not reach directly. Our assumption was that news.o.o would be the place where we can reach out to everyone interested in openSUSE. If that's not the case, I would like to know how we can improve here.
So here is my question: How - beside any personal contact - do you get news around openSUSE?
Generally via the mailing lists - I virtually never go to visit news.o.o :-)
I think it would have been nice to announce the closing of connect.o.o to e.g. project.lists ? maybe also announcement.lists.
Yeah i'd second the send it to the project list as well even if its as simple as "Connect is closing down, read more at <News Link>", I think we reasonably expect people interested in project wide news to read one or the other but not both.
Yes, that would have been appropriate. It was there where I saw the need for volunteers for connect and where I volunteered, somewhere in Feb 2019. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
Am Fri, 6 Aug 2021 11:48:25 +0200
schrieb "Carlos E. R."
I think it would have been nice to announce the closing of connect.o.o to e.g. project.lists ? maybe also announcement.lists.
done: Email sent out to announce@lists.opensuse.org now.
It was there where I saw the need for volunteers for connect and where I volunteered, somewhere in Feb 2019.
Sorry that I missed that application. What do you need to upgrade connect.o.o to a maintainable state in terms of code and setup? - I'm sure we find a way to support you here. With kind regards, Lars
On 06/08/2021 17.06, Lars Vogdt wrote:
Am Fri, 6 Aug 2021 11:48:25 +0200 schrieb "Carlos E. R." <>:
I think it would have been nice to announce the closing of connect.o.o to e.g. project.lists ? maybe also announcement.lists.
done: Email sent out to announce@lists.opensuse.org now.
It was there where I saw the need for volunteers for connect and where I volunteered, somewhere in Feb 2019.
Sorry that I missed that application.
What do you need to upgrade connect.o.o to a maintainable state in terms of code and setup? - I'm sure we find a way to support you here.
No no, the site is best removed. We volunteered while this could not be done to keep it free of spam, so that we had two admin accounts for that purpose. As a temporary hack, not permanent. We asked for it to be removed after a year of that temporary hack. We thought it would be a few months and it has been three years. That was my main role as "hero". A very simple one. My only complain is that we were not told when the site was removed, as we had asked (we wanted the site gone). When I tried to login to do my job, I found the site was not there. I'm not home, I only have here an old slow laptop, so I did not try to login earlier. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
Per Jessen wrote:
I think it would have been nice to announce the closing of connect.o.o to e.g. project.lists ? maybe also announcement.lists.
Of course, I was still late in reading it, but your post to announcements.lists was exactly right! -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.4°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes
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