On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 15:38, Lee Forest <lee...@gmail.com> wrote: > And keeping one golden rule of software development in mind, don't let your > system do redundant tasks.
As golden as the need to not to have redundancy: it depends. Redundancy can be very, very appreciated. But not always in a discussion (be it with mail or web-based forum) where appropriately quoting is very, very appreciated too. :-) > What about being able to [...] Yes, that could be nice, only, Mageia is not about building first an improved mail/forum gateway, but about building first an improved operating system. You can't blame people for focusing on this and doing it with tools they are productive with already. Migrating everyone to forums is, here, not acceptable. Dismissing others from each side as well. Migrating everyone to ml was not even considered (or we wouldn't have planned to have forums, or we would have let them to local groups only). That this question gets discussed on and on is a (good) sign that people are motivated to participate. But are you motivated enough to cross the bridge, to change your habits and to meet the people where they gather to build this thing, and to instill improvements? The bridge is wide open and there's so much to built it further. Only, it's not necessarily what you expect it to be, at first. There have been several suggestions as to build a forum/mail gateway, only without the means to actually implement it within our infrastructure. For what is existing, tux99 used to provide a 3rd place showcase gateway in the past but I am not sure what its future status will be; or you have http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel or http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel or we could consider another gateway if it's worth it (Google groups? other?) and if there's someone to lend a hand to... no, to join sysadmin team for that (and other things). Speaking of focus, this thread is about the release cycle. Now you are welcome to open a bug http://bugs.mageia.org/ in the Websites, forums.mageia.org section I guess; if you think it's worth it to dig/document this ml/forum thing further (and even better, if you have a better workable solution at hand). But please let this thread on topic. Romain
