[tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello aqualung, Am 2011-04-17 11:26:23, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > The http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ should be at or near the > top. WHY? I think the first one should be the ORIGINAL mailinglist, because it is more ipmortant. Also WHY "OpenOffice" and not "LibreOffice"?

[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello RGB ES, Am 2011-04-17 21:33:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > For whatever reason "normal people" do not use mailing lists nor irc > channels. Hmmm, do you mean I am not normal? - This is discrimination! > This people who arrives to that get-help page searching for > help with their

[tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello aqualung, Am 2011-04-17 09:07:45, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I keep hearing "freedom", but is it about the freedom of users from being > locked into a proprietary file format... or the freedom of unattached > software developers to get their patches committed? Do people here really >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi aqualung, *, aqualung schrieb: [..] > Anyway, I'm glad that people are responding. I guess it proves the > adage, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" > Tell you what, give me the keys to that page and I'll fix it for ya. Do You have an account on the CMS? If not, someone might have the lin

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and a StackExchange support website

2011-04-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
2011/4/18 Fabián Rodríguez : > On 04/17/2011 10:21 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> The new hotness for a support website would be to have a StackExchange >> website for LibreOffice. >> For example, >>    * http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/  -  aiming at developers, >> advanced users

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread RGB ES
2011/4/17 sophie : > On 17/04/2011 22:33, RGB ES wrote: >> >> Aqualung already listed the content of the get-help page and the lack >> of any reference to existing forums and that is my main point too >> (don't worry, I'll not talk about socialism nor capitalism... ;) ). >> I'll not quote anyone in

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and a StackExchange support website

2011-04-17 Thread Fabián Rodríguez
On 04/17/2011 10:21 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > Hi All, > > The new hotness for a support website would be to have a StackExchange > website for LibreOffice. > For example, >* http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ - aiming at developers, > advanced users >* http://askubuntu.com/ - aiming

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread sophie
On 17/04/2011 22:33, RGB ES wrote: Aqualung already listed the content of the get-help page and the lack of any reference to existing forums and that is my main point too (don't worry, I'll not talk about socialism nor capitalism... ;) ). I'll not quote anyone in particular here, so let's see if

[tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread aqualung
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > > > > What did You *act* to get it there? > > > Friedrich, see my earlier postings (with references / links to earlier commentary). Anyway, I'm glad that people are responding. I guess it proves the adage, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" Tell you what, gi

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread RGB ES
Aqualung already listed the content of the get-help page and the lack of any reference to existing forums and that is my main point too (don't worry, I'll not talk about socialism nor capitalism... ;) ). I'll not quote anyone in particular here, so let's see if I can make the whole idea more clear

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi aqualung, *, aqualung schrieb: > Charles-H. Schulz wrote: >> But there are existing LibreOffice and OpenOffice forums. I still >> don't get the point. > Why aren't the users of LibreOffice being told about them? Whom do You accuse here? > www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ is the Help page. Let'

Re: [tdf-discuss] North American Community Inaugural Meeting

2011-04-17 Thread drew
> > > > Way to go! Thank you for setting this up. Thanks Charles, but this chick is far from hatched still. //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarc

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:26:23 -0700 (PDT), aqualung a écrit : > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > > > But there are existing LibreOffice and OpenOffice forums. I still > > don't get > > the point. > Why aren't the users of LibreOffice being told about them? > > www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ is the

[tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread aqualung
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > But there are existing LibreOffice and OpenOffice forums. I still don't > get > the point. Why aren't the users of LibreOffice being told about them? www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ is the Help page. Let's see what it says: For user support, we have: > > * Maili

Re: [tdf-discuss] North American Community Inaugural Meeting

2011-04-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Drew, Le Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:08:09 -0400, drew a écrit : > Hi folks, > > I would like to ask the members of the LibreOffice community residing > in North America for a few minutes of your time. > > First - to please take ~six minutes of your time in order to watch the > video found here

[tdf-discuss] North American Community Inaugural Meeting

2011-04-17 Thread drew
Hi folks, I would like to ask the members of the LibreOffice community residing in North America for a few minutes of your time. First - to please take ~six minutes of your time in order to watch the video found here: http://www.facebook.com/v/1840388402746 and to consider the proposals made in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Aqualung, 2011/4/17 aqualung > See, I learned about this "forum" (it isn't really a forum, it's something > concocted out of mailing lists to sort of resemble a real forum) by > accident > one month ago, from a > http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/03/17/flattr-us/ blog comment by > Fl

[tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread aqualung
See, I learned about this "forum" (it isn't really a forum, it's something concocted out of mailing lists to sort of resemble a real forum) by accident one month ago, from a http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/03/17/flattr-us/ blog comment by Florian Effenberger . My suggestion to advertise th

Re: [tdf-discuss] Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread sophie
On 17/04/2011 16:06, RGB ES wrote: 2011/4/17 Christian Lohmaier: Again: The point is not forum or not. The point is: Why the heck do you want *yet another* forum. Please, re read my message: I'm NOT talking about a new forum nor to split anything. I'm talking about OFFICIAL COOPERATION: about

Re: [tdf-discuss] Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Carl Symons
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:06 AM, RGB ES wrote: > 2011/4/17 Christian Lohmaier : >> Again: The point is not forum or not. The point is: Why the heck do >> you want *yet another* forum. >> > Please, re read my message: I'm NOT talking about a new forum nor to > split anything. I'm talking about OFFI

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and a StackExchange support website

2011-04-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, The new hotness for a support website would be to have a StackExchange website for LibreOffice. For example, * http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ - aiming at developers, advanced users * http://askubuntu.com/ - aiming at users, also advanced users Here is a list of all StackExcha

Re: [tdf-discuss] Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread RGB ES
2011/4/17 Christian Lohmaier : > Again: The point is not forum or not. The point is: Why the heck do > you want *yet another* forum. > Please, re read my message: I'm NOT talking about a new forum nor to split anything. I'm talking about OFFICIAL COOPERATION: about not to let the forum issue as a s

Re: [tdf-discuss] Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:30 PM, RGB ES wrote: > We can discuss up to the end of the time if forums are better or worse > than mailing lists. We can discuss about why people do not use "better > communication methods" (whichever those methods are) or do not RTFM. > > We can discuss everything, but

[tdf-discuss] Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread RGB ES
We can discuss up to the end of the time if forums are better or worse than mailing lists. We can discuss about why people do not use "better communication methods" (whichever those methods are) or do not RTFM. We can discuss everything, but there is a clear fact that cannot be denied: English co

Re: [tdf-discuss] QA - Bug Confirming: Volunteers required

2011-04-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Or maybe people did join, waited a little and then left again without > writing a word, because the channel itself was silent. This was more or less my case. I connected in the afternoon European time, I saw no activity at all for one hour, I realized that "12PM" (i.e.,

Re: [tdf-discuss] QA - Bug Confirming: Volunteers required

2011-04-17 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Pieter E. Zanstra schrieb: So apparantly there is something seriously wrong in the process control. Hi, yes! I believe it would help a lot to have UNCONFIRMED as default submission status, but unfortunately it seems that that will not be possible with the current Bugzilla version. I think

Re: [tdf-discuss] QA - Bug Confirming: Volunteers required

2011-04-17 Thread sophie
Hi all, On 17/04/2011 05:20, Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi Steve, *, On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: How was the session on triage. "Failure" basically - (or also bad timing, as 3.4beta has not been available, and when it was, it turned out that it wasn't running / ther

RE: [tdf-discuss] QA - Bug Confirming: Volunteers required

2011-04-17 Thread Pieter E. Zanstra
On the basis of what is described about statuses (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status) I understand that every report starts its life as UNCONFIRMED. Next a power user can "accept" a bug and set the status to NEW. So apparantly there is something seriously wrong in the proce