I use to check the forums pretty regularly but with the lack of posts I stopped. Mostly because the same questions posted in the forum were being posted to the google group as well. If help is needed with maintenance or house cleaning I'm more than happy to devote some time as needed.
--- Amanda M. * [email protected] www.manda-moore.com* On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Michael C. Harris < [email protected]> wrote: > People are involved in open source projects according to their > interests and available time. Clearly, there haven't been enough > people with the time and interest to adequately maintain the forums. > There's no point anyone getting annoyed about this. You can influence > other people, but you can only change your own behaviour. If you feel > strongly about the forums, make them work. > > If it was me, this is what I'd do. > > * Regularly check the forums, and encourage others to do so, in a positive > way. > * When there's a question, find the information on the wiki, and point > the questioner to it. > * If there's nothing on the wiki, try to get people who are likely to > be able to answer the question to document it on the wiki. > * If you can't get people to write the appropriate documentation, try > to get them to answer the specific question on the forum. Extract > stuff from their answer and put it on the wiki, if appropriate. > * If you can't get people to answer the question on the forums, try to > get them to tell you the answer in some other way, for example on IRC, > and post the answer on the forums yourself. Extract stuff from their > answer and put it on the wiki, if appropriate. > > Putting links to specific questions in front of the people who might > be able to answer them might be a way to encourage participation on > the forums. > > You might think different tactics could work to reinvigorate the > forums, but telling other people what they should do is guaranteed not > to work. > > cheers, Michael > > -- > Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University > http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog > IRC: michaeltwofish #habari > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
