On 3/9/20 7:03 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Maurizio Galli (MauG) <mauriziogalli@opensuse.org> [03-08-20 15:59]:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:23 AM Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
To return to $SUBJ - I still maintain splitting the community was a bad idea. There are new communication platforms emerging virtually every day, adding to the confusion was wholly unnecessary and not in the best interest of the community.
Having a place 100% dedicated to support that doesn't need people to filter noise is not only important for those seeking support but also for the kind people providing it. It helps keep things concise and tidy. I support the decision of opensuse-support@o-o and I don't consider it "splitting the community" but rather a sensible action to answer the needs of a growing community :).
You feel that "better served" than merely bringing opensuse@o-o back to it's "on-topic" discussions and the other conversations being redirected to opensuse-offtopic? The origin of opensuse-support resulted from the wandering away from topic being seen on opensuse-factory with the increasing load for support to Tumbleweed. The reason conveyed was the increased traffic moving dev's away.
I believe some may have tried and failed at that in the past. What you say about opensuse-factory is also true and I still semi regularly reminding people not to post support questions there.
With the advent of opensuse-support and the wandering on opensuse, might as well do away with opensuse-offtopic.
I'd be happy for the people in the community still using that list to decide on that, my impression is that it has minimal positive or negative impact on the project so if people are still happily using it I see no reason to remove it. On the other hand if its not being used or if its only used a little bit and that discussion could be moved else where then closing it might be reasonable (two years ago we went through and closed all lists that had very limited or no traffic). -- 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