On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Keep in mind what the current state of the openSUSE project is: it has just begun, and there's still a lot to do, both on the SUSE/Novell side as on ours (the community).
Well said! [...]
Making this a "user" mailing-list would kill openSUSE, it's already drowned with such e-mails as of now. "Developers" (i.e. packagers, committers, active community members, ...) also need a mailing-list to communicate their ideas, what they've always been missing, etc... with people from SUSE/Novell.
I guess we will have additional mailinglists on special topics (like packaging) soon. Creating a user list @openSUSE.org is something which should be avoided, because there are already that kind of lists @suse.com, which shoulnd't be replaced and/or duplicated. Keep in mind, that this is all about SUSE Linux...! [...]
IMHO web forums suck really, really bad. And there are already some SUSE web forums.
I think it's much better to embrace and extend what already exists in the community instead of starting everything from scratch.
Just a very short comment on web forums: The problem I see there is, that we don't have an "official" (web-)forum (yet). We didn't say, ok, let's create yet another forum, to create the community. One of the main goals that we defined, before we launched the openSUSE project, was to bring together existing community efforts _but_ by no means replace or pass those existing communities over. To succeed in the end-user related areas and to take some traffic of this list, (web-) forums will be inevitable in my opinion. Regards Christoph