Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-08 Thread Joe Doss
Hi Daniel, I already said I would dedicated the time and energy to hel0 make a forum successful. I said that in my first reply. I just won't do it in an unofficial capacity. An unofficial forum isn't going to set it up for success and it's going to take more than just me to make it a first cla

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2017-12-08 10:44:41 -0600, Joe Doss wrote: > * Large FOSS projects like Fedora have every support channel avail. IRC > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/IRC), Mailing Lists > (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/), GitHub Clone > (https://pagure.io/), Forums (https://fedoraforum.org/),

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-08 Thread Joe Doss
Hi Jason, On 12/07/2017 08:33 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: That's what IRC is for, I think. #wireguard is where people should go to chat usually. Thanks for your offer to host something, but I've got more than enough stable infrastructure for hosting new gadgets, as they occur to us. I'm also

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 03:33 +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > I've recently been vortexing people who need super basic help toward > #wireguard, in order to leave this list for discussion of all sorts, > whether it's discussion of interesting user related things ("how do I > do this new and int

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-07 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi Joe, On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Joe Doss wrote: > We do need a place for users to communicate that isn't going to collide with > devel chatter. https://www.discourse.org/ is pretty great for users, easy to > use and not terrible to self host. I think it would be good to give users a > non

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-07 Thread Joe Doss
On 11/30/2017 07:03 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: Recently XDA learned about WireGuard, which has resulted in an influx of teenagers writing in, sometimes with their mailing addresses, and generally decreasing the overall quality of discussion here. As WireGuard becomes more well known, this kind

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-03 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Ferris Ellis wrote: > Wikis: As for wikis, I always have had mixed feelings about them. For large > projects like Gentoo or Arch they’re great, in my opinion, for community > knowledge accumulation. But for smaller projects I’ve found having something > to the effe

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-12-01 Thread Ferris Ellis
>> Maybe it is easier for >> you to have an wiki and bugtracker like gitlab or gitlab, where >> everybody can get the informations he need, show bugs, get infos about >> bugs and ask questions to other users. > > That's what the list is supposed to be for, though. Maybe it's just a > matter of SNR

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-11-30 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Mytril wrote: > i personally have subscribed this mailing list only to ask and describe > the problem with the dynamic addresses, you know. I thought that was a very good topic. The matter of dynamic addresses is certainly something to be discussed. Don't worry!

Re: Dealing with list volume

2017-11-30 Thread Mytril
> Hi guys, > > Recently XDA learned about WireGuard, which has resulted in an influx > of teenagers writing in, sometimes with their mailing addresses, and > generally decreasing the overall quality of discussion here. As > WireGuard becomes more well known, this kind of thing is expected to > con

Dealing with list volume

2017-11-30 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi guys, Recently XDA learned about WireGuard, which has resulted in an influx of teenagers writing in, sometimes with their mailing addresses, and generally decreasing the overall quality of discussion here. As WireGuard becomes more well known, this kind of thing is expected to continue. I'd pre