On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Paul Cutler
Hi,
I'm not where to share feedback about this, but as this is the only openSUSE mailing list I'm currently subscribed to, I thought i'd start here. Before I blog about this (if I do), I wanted to say I'm happy to see the openSUSE community launch a Documentation sub-domain, especially as someone who enjoys writing user help for upstream. Getting users to read documentation and user help can be a challenge and efforts like this are important to encourage users to start in one spot when they need help.
But I can't communicate enough how disappointed I am in the sub-domain that has been chosen: http;//rtfm.opensuse.org - RTFM has such a negative connotation, especially from Linux's early years, that while this may be funny to an old-timer that has been using Linux for more than 10 years, to someone who is new and needs help, this is a bad message to send. Whether they have tried to get help on IRC or a forum and have been told to go "RTFM" we shouldn't encourage that kind of behavior by naming a sub-domain "RTFM".
Call it docs.opensuse.org, help.opensuse.org, userhelp.opensuse.org or anything else. There's no reason to continue an old stereotype or use an abbreviation in a sub-domain that contains profanity.
If anyone can pass this on to the community members who set this up or share their contact information I'm more than happy to pass on this feedback.
Thanks.
Paul
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I agree with you that RTFM is *not* the way to go. the appropriate mailing list to voice such comments would be the project mailing list (as a general user concern) or directly to the opensuse documentation mailing list. I would advise at the least subscribe to the project mailing list so you're more in tune with openSUSE going ons. You could also file in openFATE to propose a change to the sub-domain name. Bryen M Yunashko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org