On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:23:58 +0200, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
2010/6/24 Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com>:
I would likely point to threads that have to do with sound troubleshooting and the ATI drivers (which oldcpu, one of the mods, does a lot of work on) - that sort of thing.
Do it. Still I like to think that we have not so much problems. If there is a problem with the ATI driver either report it in bugzilla or, if it's a problem with the binary driver that we can't fix, document the workaround. Why oldcpu needs to answer to so much threads about ATI drivers? The same about sound.
Most of the ATI driver questions (and nVidia driver questions for that matter) end up being pointers to the HowTos; from an audio standpoint, 11.2 is *much* better than earlier releases - Lee commented that with the audio fixes in 11.2 (at the time of release) he was going to have to learn another part of the system because it was so much better in 11.2.
"worth reading" is very much in the eye of the beholder, though - something that I think is worth reading may not be something you think is worth reading (for whatever reason).
It's not me. Each subscriber of this list will decide by himself.
Well, yes, that's my point - coming up with "10 good threads from June" is thus a difficult prospect. It's easy to point out bad threads because either they're very argumentative or the information is factually incorrect. Finding good (or exceptional) threads is a much harder prospect.
http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/hardware/440397-modprobe- question.html is a pretty good example of good interaction between members to resolve and explain a problem.
Not that I'm interested in problems with less than latest openSUSE version. But sure, it is not a bad thread.
I didn't even note the version - see, for me, that thread was good not because of the version, but because of the interaction between the participants.
http://forums.opensuse.org/development/opensuse-build-service- obs/439672- error-translation-neither-enabled-nor-disabled-file.html is another good one with Malcolm (another of the mods) helping someone with an OBS issue they ran into.
Not my ideal thread. But yes, it could have been in opensuse-packaging.
Yes, it probably could have been. Similarly, we have a Studio forum that gets fairly light traffic, but usually gets a good response - even if it's "submit this as feedback so we can track it down" from James Tan - that's a perfectly valid solution. James and I had talked a few weeks ago about integrating the ML into the forum; the discussion has stalled out for the moment as I think we both ended up with other things on our respective plates.
But now I fail to see where is the problem. It seems there is people in the forums with the knowledge to answer the raised questions. Why then there is a request for more ML people/devs using the forums?
Partly for a sense of feeling like the forums "belong" in the overall project, partly for a sense of feeling like the forum membership has a voice in the project. It's a question of visibility within the dev portion of the community. It's generally far more efficient to not have to redirect people from one place to another - that kind of smoothness (which Rupert talked about a bit in his message) that's somewhat lacking here. There are other reasons as well that others are probably more in tune to than me. DenverD - any comment on this? (I ask for his input because he's one who mentions the absence) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org