Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
As soon as more than x people actively seeking help are on a channel (not sure how many in this case), it becomes hard for new people on the channel to get attention. The trick would be to get the volunteers onto the right subchannel so that when someone on #ubuntu points the user to

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew Sayers
I think the model we're heading towards with the signpost is that the wiki page contains questions that have been asked before, while IRC and the wiki discussion page are for new questions. If it works, I think #ubuntu might want to look at the signpost model. Being able to click I have a

Re: swt-gtk sync-request.

2009-07-08 Thread Adrian Perez
Great. Yes, I'm aware of xulrunner. Good luck. -- Best regards, Adrian Perez adrianperez@gmail.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Evan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: I think the model we're heading towards with the signpost is that the wiki page contains questions that have been asked before, while IRC and the wiki discussion page are for new questions. Makes sense

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:14:53 -0400 Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: I think the model we're heading towards with the signpost is that the wiki page contains questions that have been asked before, while

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Evan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:14:53 -0400 Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: I think the model we're heading towards with

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:47:19 -0400 Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Charlie Kravetz c...@teamcharliesangels.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:14:53 -0400 Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Andrew Sayers

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 12:47 -0400, Evan wrote: The only issue I can find with this approach is that many new users are coming from windows. Have you tried using windows help? It does use an approach similar to this, and I would be afraid that

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Evan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:28 PM, C de-Avillez hgg...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 12:47 -0400, Evan wrote: The only issue I can find with this approach is that many new users are coming from windows. Have you tried using windows help? It does

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Onno Benschop
On 09/07/09 01:28, C de-Avillez wrote: I can see something like this working -- as long as the requester gets paired with one single person, in a PVT IRC session (or something similar). If we just drop the requester into, say, the #ubuntu channel, then we will not have accomplished anything.

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:13:26 +0800 Onno Benschop o...@itmaze.com.au wrote: On 09/07/09 01:28, C de-Avillez wrote: I can see something like this working -- as long as the requester gets paired with one single person, in a PVT IRC session (or something similar). If we just drop the requester