On 2002.06.12 18:49 Keith Whitwell wrote: > ... > I totally disagree here...
> The dri-users list was founded on the idea that there might be a class > of 'power users' out there who would altruistically help newbies get > their setup working so that 'real developers' could concentrate on > loftier ideas. That would be indeed nice, but when that doesn't happen I think we should give them a help. If the developers were the only consumers of the the DRI drivers, then why bothering having a webpage, user FAQs, user manuals, users installation guides, etc.? (Unless that's only to catch more developers..) > > That class of power users haven't really emerged, if anything it is the > power users who are crying for help in the blackness of dri-users, as > everyone else just sucks whatever comes with their distro. I noticed several times that users do answer to other users when they know the answer. It seems that most of that class of power users has migrated to dri-devel, by force of the circunstances, i.e., because it was there where all developers where... > > Again - I think the people on dri-users would be better off just posting > to dri-devel. As it looks like we've got to monitor both lists, why > bother having a second list? I know I give less attention to posts with To separate the development issues from, .e.g, installation problems. I personally wouldn't like to have my dri-devel mbox full with cryies for help - if that happened I effectively would make my procmail seperate those into another mbox. In theory, dri-devel should be mainly for communication between all developers and beta-testers. The dri-users should be for everybody else. This is what I see in many other projects and it works quite well. > [dri-users] than [dri-devel] -- perhaps I think that people posting > there will never do any development, so I won't be "repayed" by spending > my time on them. So if they post to dri-devel then somehow they are qualified as developers and will actually do anything!? > > Shut it down, let them post on dri-devel. Yeah! Let's burn Rome! ;o) > > Keith I personally think we shouldn't do this, but I'll go for what the majority decides - after all it's what's the majority will do in the end that will really matter. So, speak up now, or forever remain quiet... José Fonseca _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
