Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Brown composed on 2020-08-28 15:55 (UTC+0200):
After years of dealing with the toxic behaviour of many in the opensuse@ mailinglist, as both an openSUSE user and member, I will _never_ contribute to such a list nor can I in good conscience recommend that anyone else ever join such a list.
No list is perfect, but opensuse-support@ does a far better job of providing users support in a healthy environment than the unremitting dank stain on this Project that opensuse@ stands to be.
In rough terms I agree.
Given the existing panoply of lists, the unhyphenated opensuse list is out of place, serving to confuse a new user, and suggest that anything goes on it, in contrast to all the others. -offtopic and -support should be clear enough in purpose that the opensuse list can, and should, be eliminated.
I suggest that would be a serious mistake. After a little more than two years, the unhyphenated opensuse list still has about six times more subscribers and about five times more traffic than opensuse-support. Why not just let people vote with their feet. If the support is more easily available on opensuse-support and of a higher quality too, people will move over. IMHO, providing support has always been a slightly sore point for openSUSE, we are just not very good at it. Eliminating the most popular openSUSE mailing list (opensuse-factory has slightly more subscribers) is not the way to improve on that situation. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.3°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org