On Thursday 28 September 2006 13:27, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > Hi all, > > On 9/28/06, Tobias Gerschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > pettern did ask me in the forum whether I agree to disable / certain > > parts of the forums to get users into using the bugtracker. > > Please do remember that we cant force people and ask them to use > Bugtrakcer. > > > The Bugs Section is also not utilized properly in the Forums. I think the > thing which confuses people is *General Yoper Support* + *Software Issues* > + *Hardware Issues* and below lies *Bugs*. So, what does this *Bugs* > section should have ? > > IMO, the *BUGS* section should be the parent for *Software > Issues*+*Hardware Issues*+*Yoper Support* and *General Yoper Support and > Discussion* can be renamed to *General Yoper Discussion*.And moreover, we > have *Unresolved Issues*. Just note how many places to post :) > > I like the way Freespire Forum <http://forum.freespire.org> is organised. > Just have a look. > > I actually do not care. I see petter's point, but from my POV people > > > won't use the bugtracker when we remove appropriate forum sections. > > They would stopped talking to us. Which is bad. > > Yes, Forums should be there along with whatever bug report tool is > available.
Is it not the case that the old bugs section referred to 2.x issues - i.e before we had the bugtracker? The fact that we currently have 3 versions of Yoper "in the wild" helps to confuse the issue. Many posts - bug ones and general "how do I .." posts fail to indicate the Yoper version which is being used. I would think the best way forward would be to look at the forum with the intention of seperating the 2.1 and 2.2.0-6 versions from the upcoming 3. Whether we should do that before releasing v3 I am not sure. Technically, the only "stable" release is 2.1. Both 2.2.0-6 and 2.91 are "testing" releases - but both are totally different, with 2.2.0-6 being closer to 2.1. When v3 is about to be released, it would be a good time to seperate the 2.x releases from v3 - with the forum being seperated out as far as issues are concerned - obviously, announcements etc are relevant to all. Chaks' comments about the excessive areas to post are valid - this could be incorporated into the v3 section I expect. To do this for the current forum would not be practical - it would mean sifting through all posts to sort them into the relevant categories. It has been suggested in the past that we could do a similar thing to that which Bongoots did when 2.1 came out - i.e shift all previous posts into an archive section. That is possible - but, with 2.1 and 2.2 being the most commonly used Yoper versions at present, I think it would be unwise to move them for at least 6 months after the official release of v3. Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
