Really, what's wrong or "ugly" with that ? Does it sound like apartheid ? ;) ^^^^^^^^
Am Dienstag, den 09.05.2006, 13:36 +0200 schrieb Pascal Bleser: [snipped lot of stuff about deserving an email address] I can't believe you guys are arguing about who should get what kind of email-address. How about we have Novell create a new mailing list: emailornot@opensuse.org has a nice ring to it, does it not? Well, I just started contributing to opensuse by translating a couple of pages on the wiki (oh, darn, I should post that to the opensuse-wiki mailing list I guess), so according to you I would not (yet) be eligible for an opensuse email address, but if it was up to houghi, I would actually get one. Guess what? I couldn't care less about another email-address or not. What I care about is that I virtually can't find any information on opensuse.org that goes beyond how to download the latest release. I occasionally see a link posted here or on another opensuse mailing list i subscribed to, and i keep asking myself: how did he (or she) find that particular bit of information? i keep trying, but either I get dead-ends or I'm drowned in search results. Another thing: I find a page, see that it has already been translated and move on to another page. The next day I happen to visit that same page again, it looks the same, only the link to the translated page is suddenly gone. What kind crap is that? No matter if a wiki (and opensuse is a wiki, right?) is an ever-evolving thing or not. As a user I prefer some stability. When I visit a webpage I expect to find it again tomorrow, even more so when it's a corporate webpage. And I get annoyed when one of the main pages changes daily, like it happened with http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation. that was totally out of line. smiley or not.
BTW, do I sound arrogant or harsh to you ? Well, I'm trying to push things forward and at some point it involves making statements and/or speaking on behalf of others, either to be agreed upon or to trigger reactions, discussions, decisions and actions (in that order ;D).
No, not arrogant, but losing yourself (and some really good points in your original posting) in imho totally fruitless discussions about some really. really, really (may I say it again: really!) unimportant things. -- Andreas