Le lundi 04 octobre 2010 à 09:26 +0200, Frédéric CUIF a écrit : > Le dimanche 3 octobre 2010 22:40:45, Olivier Méjean a écrit : > > So, even if there is a good tool to have a bidirectional Gateway between ML > > and web forum i don't think we will meet efficiency with it. The best way > > for me > > is to have these different tools since they have different audiences, some > > of us > > will be on both tools but most will use just one. > > I think we MUST have a good tool to do so, because it's probably the only way > to allow > end users to speak with developpers, ech category of people with its favorite > tool. We > cannot act the same way as Mandriva was doing, setting up two different > tools, because > it promotes the compartmentalization of the groups of users. If we want a > distribution > set for developpers AND en users, they must talk together.
Excuse me ? You should maybe read what I posted on cooker last time this issue was brought up, I may even have already posted the link here http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-08/msg00358.php Developers ( and people who contribute in general ) are free to act as they want, there is no place for "MUST" in a community of volunteers, be it for free software or for association. While there is case where it will not work ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all ), i think that we are no in such case. If you still think that's not true and try to coerce developers into reading users "because they must do it", this will likely result in obvious clash, with user being unhappy ( because of false promise and false hope ), or a lack of growth in the contributers base ( with lose due to the usual erosion ), and at worst, a exodus to others projects. I do not know for others, but neither alternative seems good for me. See also my mail on https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20100925/001191.html on how we should try to improve things, based on what I think to be logical arguments. -- Michael Scherer
